Dear all, I have a platform PATA chip : JMB368 IDE controller (1-port PATA Host Controller) HDD : TOSHIBA MK1214GAH Use pata_jmicron.ko in linux 2.6.25.4 [ 21.942308] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [ 21.942571] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:00.0 to 64 [ 21.942696] scsi2 : pata_jmicron [ 21.942976] scsi3 : pata_jmicron [ 21.943192] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xdc00 ctl 0xd880 bmdma 0xd400 irq 16 [ 21.943301] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xd800 ctl 0xd480 bmdma 0xd408 irq 16 [ 26.959936] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0) [ 31.804198] ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16) Fail to detect the HDD. Change kernel version to 2.6.26-rc6 [ 18.698228] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:00.0 to 64 [ 18.699232] scsi2 : pata_jmicron [ 18.700232] scsi3 : pata_jmicron [ 18.701228] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xdc00 ctl 0xd880 bmdma 0xd400 irq 16 [ 18.701228] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xd800 ctl 0xd480 bmdma 0xd408 irq 16 [ 23.901273] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) [ 28.745756] ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16) [ 33.945755] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) [ 38.790754] ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16) [ 43.990754] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) [ 69.801394] ata1.00: ATA-7: TOSHIBA MK1214GAH, BW004A, max UDMA/100 [ 69.801650] ata1.00: 234441648 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 [ 69.801955] ata1.00: limited to UDMA/33 due to 40-wire cable [ 69.807903] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33 [ 69.959727] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA TOSHIBA MK1214GA BW00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 69.962165] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors (120034 MB) [ 69.962524] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 69.962585] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 69.963370] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 69.964016] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors (120034 MB) [ 69.964160] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 69.964160] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 69.965158] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 69.965158] sdb: sdb1 sdb3 [ 70.309158] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk [ 70.310158] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 Can detect HDD but takes a long time. Seems after SRST, the disk needs over 30 seconds to clear its BSY status. Try IDE driver jmicron.ko in 2.6.25.4 [ 44.870518] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver [ 44.870732] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx [ 60.096513] JMB: IDE controller (0x197b:0x2368 rev 0x00) at PCI slot 0000:05:00.0 [ 60.096873] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [ 60.097202] JMB: 100% native mode on irq 16 [ 60.097429] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd400-0xd407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA [ 60.097928] ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd408-0xd40f, BIOS settings: hdc:PIO, hdd:PIO [ 60.098342] Probing IDE interface ide0... [ 60.362870] hda: TOSHIBA MK1214GAH, ATA DISK drive [ 60.668892] hda: host max PIO5 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4 [ 60.669015] hda: host side 80-wire cable detection failed, limiting max speed to UDMA33 [ 60.669305] hda: UDMA/33 mode selected [ 60.669618] Probing IDE interface ide1... [ 61.188796] ide0 at 0xdc00-0xdc07,0xd882 on irq 16 [ 61.189461] hda: max request size: 512KiB [ 61.736475] hda: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB), CHS=16383/255/63 [ 61.513823] hda: cache flushes supported [ 61.514189] hda: hda1 hda3 It works fine due to IDE driver doesn't do SRST when probing HDD. (I guess. :p) Not sure host or device issue. Is it possible to fix the problem? -- Best Regards, Edward -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html