AEC62XX Driver: Can ANYONE Help!?

[ccb at ydl.net]

Sorry for the second posting, but in hindsight perhaps some additional detail
would be useful.

The ACard AEC-6280M cards are installed in two Blue and White G3s, one running
YDL 3.0.1 and the other 4.0. The CPUs are upgraded with PowerLogix PowerForce
ZIF 900MHZ G3s. There's a Broadcom BCM5703X Gigabit ethernet card (pulled from
Apple XServes), a Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 based Firewire card, and an ATI
Rage 128 card in each. Each AEC-6280M has a Western Digital WD2500SB 250GB drive
on each IDE channel (as you can see below).


Here's part of the pertinent output from dmesg:

AEC6280R: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:01:03.0
AEC6280R: chipset revision 7
AEC6280R: ROM enabled at 0x808a0000
AEC6280R: 100% native mode on irq 24
    ide3: BM-DMA at 0x1050-0x1057, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
    ide4: BM-DMA at 0x1058-0x105f, BIOS settings: hdi:pio, hdj:pio
Probing IDE interface ide3...
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[0000303c00090d9d]
hdg: WDC WD2500SB-01KBA0, ATA DISK drive
ide3 at 0x1090-0x1097,0x1082 on irq 24
hdg: max request size: 1024KiB
hdg: lost interrupt
hdg: lost interrupt
hdg: lost interrupt
hdg: 488397168 sectors (250059 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdg: lost interrupt
 hdg:<4>hdg: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24
 AEC62XX time out <4>hdg: lost interrupt
 [mac] hdg1 hdg2 hdg3 hdg4 hdg5 hdg6 hdg7<4>hdg: dma_timer_expiry: dma status ==
0x24
 AEC62XX time out <4>hdg: lost interrupt
 hdg8 hdg9 hdg10
hdg: lost interrupt
Probing IDE interface ide4...
hdi: WDC WD2500SB-01KBA0, ATA DISK drive
ide4 at 0x1070-0x1077,0x1062 on irq 24
hdi: max request size: 1024KiB
hdi: lost interrupt
hdi: lost interrupt
hdi: lost interrupt
hdi: 488397168 sectors (250059 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdi: lost interrupt
 hdi:<4>hdi: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24
 AEC62XX time out <4>hdi: lost interrupt
 [mac] hdi1 hdi2 hdi3 hdi4 hdi5 hdi6 hdi7<4>hdi: dma_timer_expiry: dma status ==
0x24
 AEC62XX time out <4>hdi: lost interrupt
 hdi8 hdi9 hdi10
hdi: lost interrupt


Thanks again.


Quoting myself:
>
> Hello all. After purchasing two ACard AEC-6280M cards for a couple of file 
> servers, I came to realize that the recent versions of the aec62xx driver 
> are flaky at best. (Or at least don't generally function properly "out of 
> the box.") I find it hard to believe that no one out there is using an 
> ACard-based IDE PCI card with YDL 3 or 4. Past discussions that I've found 
> on this topic haven't produced much in the way of solutions.
> 
> Does anyone have a working aec62xx driver, or know of a kernel source 
> distro that contains one, or know of a workaround?
> 
> Thanks.


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ccb at ydl.net


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