AEC62XX Driver: Can ANYONE Help!?

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

Have you tried turning off DMA for /dev/hdg and /dev/hdi yet? Instructions
on how to do so may be found at
http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-newbie/2003-August/003998.html

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:38:04 -0800, ccb wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
> ----------------
> 
> Corbett Battaile
> ccb at ydl.net
> 
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