Re: 2.6.16-rc1-mm2 pata driver confusion

[Ed Sweetman <safemode@comcast.net>]

Still using mm kernels here, now on 2.6.16-rc1-mm5.   Still no atapi 
device detection - much less function - when using the libata pata amd 
driver for the nvidia Nforce4 chipset.   I tried, libata.atapi_enabled=1 
and just atapi_enabled=1 in the boot args and nothing was mentioned 
about atapi devices in dmesg.

Is it a known issue with the pata libata drivers that atapi isn't 
working yet? ...  all i've seen is people with sata atapi devices 
chiming in.





>On Maw, 2006-01-24 at 01:43 -0500, Ed Sweetman wrote:
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>>problem.  The problem is that there appears to be two nvidia/amd ata
>>drivers and I'm unsure which I should try using, if i compile both in,
>>which get loaded first (i assume scsi is second to ide) and if i want my
>>pata disks loaded under the new libata drivers, will my cdrom work under
>>them too, or do i still need some sort of regular ide drivers loaded
>>just for cdrom (to use native ata mode for recording access).

>>>The goal of the drivers/scsi/pata_* drivers is to replace drivers/ide in
>its entirity with code using the newer and cleaner libata logic. There
>is still much to do but my SIL680, SiS, Intel MPIIX, AMD and VIA boxes
>are using libata and the additional patch patches still queued
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>>>1.  Atapi is most definitely not supported by libata, right now.

>>>It works in the -mm tree.
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>Intriguing, when I had no ide chipset compiled in kernel, only libata
>drivers, I got no mention at all about my dvd writer.  I even had the
>scsi cd driver installed and generic devices, still nothing seemed to
>initialize the dvd drive.  It detected the second pata bus but no
>devices attached to it.

>this is using the kernel mentioned in the subject header.
>2.6.16-rc1-mm2.  using the amd/nvidia drivers for pata and sata.

>Is there anything i can do to give more info to the list to figure out
>why my atapi writer is being ignored by pata even when there are no ide
>drivers loaded?




>>>>>Currently you need to use libata.atapi_enabled=1
>>>>>(assuming that libata is in the kernel image, not a loadable module).
>>>>I just built/tested this also, working for me as well.
>>>>>(hard drives, not ATAPI)
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>>>I assume libata.atapi_enabled=1 is a boot arg, not some structure member
>>>>in the source for the pata driver that i need to set to 1, correct?
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>Yes, it's a kernel boot option if libata is in the kernel image.
>>>If libata is a loadable module, just use something like
>>>      modprobe libata atapi_enabled=1

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>And you just built and tested it, how did you test if the atapi argument
>>>>worked when you then say "not ATAPI" as something you tested?
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>Sorry, I mean that I built and booted a kernel with libata/PATA
>>>hard drive (vs. legacy drivers/ide/ PATA support).  I have not
>>>tested ATAPI at all and didn't mean to imply that I had.
>I reported on libata.atapi_enabled=1 based on documentation
>>>and other emails that I have read.

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>In any case, i'll try out libata.atapi_enabled=1 and see if it detects
>>>>the dvd drive.
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>HTH.  Please continue to post any questions or problems.

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>>I Rebooted several times, both setting the option in the kernel boot
>>args and editing the source to have it set by default.  No atapi devices
>>are found/mentioned or even described as not found in dmesg/bootup.   So
>>apparently, on my chipset, the amd/nvidia pata driver is not detecting
>>atapi devices.
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>>0000:00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2)
>>0000:00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA
>>Controller (rev f3)
>>0000:00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA
>>Controller (rev f3)
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>>0000:00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2)
>>(prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
>>        Subsystem: Unknown device f043:815a
>>        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
>>        I/O ports at f000 [size=16]
>>        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
>the atapi device in question is a plextor px-712A, it's the only device
>>on the secondary channel.
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>And this is with using only ATA (libata) drivers in drivers/scsi/
>and not ATA drivers in drivers/ide/, right?
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>Hm.  I guess we treat this as a bug report for NV ATA/ATAPI then.
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>I just tested my system with a Plextor PX-712SA drive plus
>booting with libata.atapi_enabled=1 and the driver (not nv)
>sees the ATAPI drive and can read it.
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 >Indeed, this is with only libata.  I had scsi disk driver and cdrom
 >driver compiled in as well, because i assumed that the "low level"
 >libata drivers required those scsi interfaces to access the disks and
 >atapi devices that are found by libata.  ide isn't even compiled in.
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 >Like i said, i booted with libata.atapi_enabled=1 and that produced
 >nothing about cdroms/atapi devices and then I simply set the variable 
 >to 1 in source and recompiled and booted and same problem.

 >my board is an Asus A8N-E and my plextor is on the PATA controller, not
 >the SATA like yours.  Perhaps mine would work too if it was sata, but 
 >it appears that the pata driver has no provisions for atapi devices >yet.