Re: New libata PATA patch for 2.6.16-rc1

[Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>]

On Monday 13 March 2006 16:39, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> On Monday 13 March 2006 15:07, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Available from
> >
> > http://zeniv.linux.org.uk/~alan/IDE/
>
> Alan, I've been using your patchset for a while on a small-memory machine
> with an AMD IDE controller, so that the legacy PATA port can be used to run
> an optical drive without bloating the vmlinux size with ide-* (already have
> SCSI built in for usb-storage and SATA). I've not had a single problem to
> date.

However, I just tried the same driver on my desktop PC (4xSATA HDs, 1xPATA) 
and I get the following periodically (when the PATA device is NOT being 
used):

ata1: irq trap
ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x20
ata2: irq trap
ata2: command 0xca timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x20
ata4: irq trap
ata4: irq trap
ata4: irq trap
ata4: irq trap
ata4: command 0xc8 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x20

ata1-4 are the HDs, ata5 is the PATA device (it does not trigger).

This could however be some bug in 2.6.16-rc6, the last kernel on this box with 
2.6.16-rc4 without your IDE patches.

Any ideas?

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
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