Re: [9fans] VIA VT8237 SATA/RAID i/o errors, dma doesnt work

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> I changed sdata.c to:
>
> return SDretry if starting dmarequest fails,
> return SDretry and reseting controller if dma times out,
> return SDretry on request is done and error signaled,
>
> and added a counter that resets the controller if a request
> was 1000 times retried...

you might want to loop internally instead of counting to 1000.
(which may be too high.  i would think that 2 or 4 would do it.
have you seen differently?)  if more than one thread is doing i/o
to the disk and you have a bad sector, it may take an arbitrary
amount of time before you discover this fact.

> The machine ran the whole night with bodth drives in DMA and heavy load.
> vacing, pingflooded from outside, ddtest on both drives and still alive! :-)

good deal.  via's product page
www.via.com.tw/en/products/chipsets/southbridge/vt8237/specs.jsp
indicates that the nic & sata controller are both integrated into the sb.
perhaps this extra southbridge configuration (pci.c) would make the
sdata hack unnecessary?

static void
viaset(Pcidev *p, uchar link, uchar irq)
{
	uchar pirq;

	pirq = pcicfgr8(p, 0x55 + (link >> 1));
	pirq &= (link & 1)? 0x0f: 0xf0;
	pirq |= (link & 1)? (irq << 4): (irq & 15);
	pcicfgw8(p, 0x55 + (link>>1), pirq);
	if(p->vid != 0x3177 && p->vid != 0x3227)
		return;

	/* Set transition time to max */
	pcicfgw8(p, 0xec, pcicfgr8(p, 0xec) & ~4);
	pcicfgw8(p, 0xe4, pcicfgr8(p, 0xe4) & ~0x80);
	pcicfgw8(p, 0xe5, pcicfgr8(p, 0xe5) | 0x80);

//	if(pcicfgr8(p, 0x81) & 0x80)
//		acpiregs = pcicfgr32(p, 0x88) & 0xff00;
}

- erik