CC linux-ide, as people there may be more familiar with the quirks and caveats of SD2IDE adapters On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 3:56 PM Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 9 Dec 2019, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > > > It would be interesting to know if other people with A1200s have > > > issues with IDE or not.... > > > > Sorry for bumping this thread after a few months, I just wanted to > > report that I recently built a mainline 4.19.87 kernel with GCC 7.4.0, > > (playing with some Buildroot thing) and I think I ran into exactly this > > issue on my A1200. > > (...) > > If that's extra info, the same kernel works flawlessly in FS-UAE (with an > > emulated A1200 IDE controller), so the problems only occur on real > > hardware. > > OK, so I did some more tests: > > 1., I tried the PATA Gayle driver. This one fails to boot in UAE, seems to > be able to probe the units, then unable to read blocks from them it seems. > At least in FS UAE on my Mac. I could try to fetch a proper crashlog > somehow... Note that the IDE Gayle driver works fine with the same > emulator setup. > > 2., The PATA Gayle driver also locks up on my Amiga 1200 similar to the > IDE Gayle driver. > > 3., Actually, it still might be a problem with the SD2IDE adapter. With > the PATA Gayle driver, it doesn't even enumerate the master unit, just > locks up. With the IDE Gayle driver, it shows the device on the bus, then > locks up. When the lockup occurs, with the PATA Gayle driver, the HDD LED > remains lit. With the IDE Gayle driver, it remains dark, but: > > If I try to boot the kernel from an actual 2,5" HDD (Samsung 40GB, > relatively recent), none of the enumeration problems seem to be happening, > and both the IDE driver and the PATA driver shows the partitions on the > HDD properly, then waits to the root volume to appear. Sadly this HDD > doesn't have a Linux root partition tho, and no disk space to make one. :( > So can't boot further to test the system. > > For now, I ordered an SD2IDE adapter with another chipset, and I'll try to > get a real hard disk, or any other device (maybe an IDE DoM or something) > to test with. (But again, the problematic SD2IDE works with AmigaOS just > fine, and also worked with NetBSD 7.1 at least, and as I have two of the > same SD2IDE adapters, I tried with both, but both show the same symptoms. > Also tried SD cards from multiple makers, made no difference, so it must > be that SD2IDE model somehow.) > > Cheers, > -- > Charlie > > (Ps: are these tests/sharing this kind of info is useful? I stop spamming > if no one is really interested.)
