Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758328AbXJXNHj (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:07:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756400AbXJXNHc (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:07:32 -0400 Received: from office-abk.mandriva.com ([84.55.162.90]:58539 "EHLO office.mandriva.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756252AbXJXNHa (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:07:30 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1176 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:07:30 EDT To: Linux-kernel Subject: Re: libata PATA status for VIA 8237 X-URL: From: Thierry Vignaud Organization: Mandriva Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:48:04 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20071024095602.GA2607@DervishD> (DervishD's message of "Wed\, 24 Oct 2007 11\:56\:02 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1898 Lines: 40 DervishD writes: > I'm thinking about switching fully to libata in the near future > (currently I'm using CONFIG_IDE for all my PATA drives, both hard disks > and DVD recorder), and I was wondering if PATA support for VIA8237 was > full or not. For what I've googled, it seems that it is usable both for > PATA and for SATA, but I want to be sure. > > If I'm asking here is because I have SATA support for my VIA chipset > enabled in the kernel (CONFIG_SATA_VIA), but I'm getting these messages: > > sata_via 0000:00:0c.0: version 2.0 > sata_via 0000:00:0c.0: routed to hard irq line 10 > ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFE00 ctl 0xFE0A bmdma 0xFA00 irq 10 > ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFD00 ctl 0xFD0A bmdma 0xFA08 irq 10 > scsi0 : sata_via > ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) > >> ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xFE07 > scsi1 : sata_via > ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) > >> ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xFD07 > sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: routed to hard irq line 11 > ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF900 ctl 0xF802 bmdma 0xF500 irq 11 > ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF700 ctl 0xF602 bmdma 0xF508 irq 11 > scsi2 : sata_via > ata3: SATA link down 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 0 SControl 300) > >> ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xF907 > scsi3 : sata_via > ata4: SATA link down 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 0 SControl 300) > >> ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xF707 I saw those too from times to times on boot with a VIA VT6421 with no consequences. So I would say they're non important (but who know for real until you test with real disk attached?) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/