9fans - fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] VIA VT8237 SATA/RAID i/o errors, dma doesnt work
Date: Wed,  6 Feb 2008 17:40:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e5314c21c4f54c7c465eb9186a2be430@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e23ff8bdf0437de7ad9e96be0e745c79@gmx.de>

> block sizes dont seem to matter, tried from 512 bytes to 64K in the
> adaptec case. i also get no errors in /dev/kprint. just read() returns
> Eio.
>
> i have no knowledge of IDE or SATA interfaces, so i'm a little bit lost
> in the code. :-( the chipset specific IDE code in linux seens to set
> mostly some timing related control registers, but doesnt change
> the logic how error conditions are handled as far as i can see. maybe
> it does by switching some important quirk flags but its not obvious
> to me.
>
> i would like to raise the debug level of sdata.c, just set any bit and got
> flooded with messages. so it would be great if you could hint me on
> some interesting debug cases where to look.
>
> many thanks so far for the quick responses! :-)
>
> cinap

is it possible you are reading or writing outside the bounds of the partition?

- erik


  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-06 22:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-06  1:31 [9fans] usb ohci support arrives geoff
2008-02-06  2:16 ` Michael Andronov
2008-02-06  4:01 ` lucio
2008-02-06 12:55 ` [9fans] usb ohci support arrives -- caution Richard Miller
2008-02-06 16:18 ` [9fans] usb ohci support arrives C H Forsyth
2008-02-06 16:23   ` Juan M. Mendez
2008-02-06 17:23 ` [9fans] usb ohci support arrives -- another caution Richard Miller
2008-02-06 17:58   ` Sape Mullender
2008-02-06 19:08     ` Richard Miller
2008-02-06 19:23     ` [9fans] VIA VT8237 SATA/RAID i/o errors, dma doesnt work cinap_lenrek
2008-02-06 20:04       ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-06 22:29         ` cinap_lenrek
2008-02-06 22:40           ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2008-02-06 23:26             ` cinap_lenrek
     [not found] <54b639a7eb08c31e4ef2a6d9fd7b6a62@quanstro.net>
2008-02-08  9:35 ` Kernel Panic
2008-02-08 14:55   ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-08 14:56   ` Robert Raschke
2008-02-08 15:27     ` Robert Raschke
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-02-05 22:13 cinap_lenrek
2008-02-06  8:41 ` Kernel Panic
2008-02-06  9:45   ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-06 10:43     ` Kernel Panic
2008-02-06 11:03       ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-05  8:18 Kernel Panic
2008-02-05  8:54 ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2008-02-05 13:20 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-05 19:48 ` Robert Raschke
2008-02-06  2:01 ` arisawa

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=e5314c21c4f54c7c465eb9186a2be430@quanstro.net \
    --to=quanstro@quanstro.net \
    --cc=9fans@cse.psu.edu \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).