I had a similar problem. Forcing the driver to enable ATA66 using
the 'ide2=ata66' boot param solved it.
T.
> [M?ns Rullg?rd <mru@users.sourceforge.net>, May-06 2002, Mon, 16:31 +0200]
> Hello,
>
> I have a Promise PDC20268 IDE controller in a PWS433au Alpha machine.
>
> With kernel 2.4.18 it works, but only at UDMA3 which must be forced with
> hdparm. UDMA4/5 can be set with hdparm, but at any disk access there are
> some errors and the mode is dropped to UDMA3.
>
> I tried 2.4.19-pre8 in the hope that it would work better. It does
> correctly detect the drive as UDMA capable but only UDMA2. The higher
> modes can't be set with hdparm. I found out that this was because a
> udma_four flag in some struct wasn't set. I changed pdc2026xx.c and
> set this flag and could set UDMA3. The better modes were still broken.
>
> Is this Alpha specific or a generic driver problem?
>
> dmesg output with original 2.4.19-pre8:
> Linux version 2.4.19-pre8 (mru@zaphod) (gcc version 3.0.4) #1 Sun May 5 11:44:45 CEST 2002
> Booting on Miata using machine vector Miata from SRM
> [snip]
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> CMD646: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 20
> CMD646: detected chipset, but driver not compiled in!
> CMD646: chipset revision 1
> CMD646: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x8080-0x8087, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x8088-0x808f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> PDC20268: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 60
> PDC20268: chipset revision 2
> PDC20268: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> PDC20268: ROM enabled at 0x09074000
> ide2: BM-DMA at 0x8090-0x8097, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
> ide3: BM-DMA at 0x8098-0x809f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
> hde: ST340810A, ATA DISK drive
> hdg: SAMSUNG COMBO SM-304B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide2 at 0x80a0-0x80a7,0x80b2 on irq 32
> ide3 at 0x80a8-0x80af,0x80b6 on irq 32
> hde: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=77545/16/63, UDMA(33)
> Partition check:
> /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: unknown partition table
> [snip]
> ide2: Speed warnings UDMA 3/4/5 is not functional. << Caused by hdparm
>
> dmesg output with my changes:
> Linux version 2.4.19-pre8 (mru@zaphod) (gcc version 3.0.4) #2 Sun May 5 17:54:12 CEST 2002
> Booting on Miata using machine vector Miata from SRM
> [snip]
> pci: passed tb register update test
> pci: passed sg loopback i/o read test
> pci: passed pte write cache snoop test
> pci: failed valid tag invalid pte reload test (mcheck; workaround available)
> pci: passed pci machine check test
> pci: tbia workaround enabled
> pci: pyxis 8K boundary dma bug - sg dma disabled
> [snip]
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> CMD646: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 20
> CMD646: detected chipset, but driver not compiled in!
> CMD646: chipset revision 1
> CMD646: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x8080-0x8087, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x8088-0x808f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> PDC20268: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 60
> PDC20268: chipset revision 2
> PDC20268: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> PDC20268: ROM enabled at 0x09074000
> ide2: BM-DMA at 0x8090-0x8097, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
> ide3: BM-DMA at 0x8098-0x809f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
> hde: ST340810A, ATA DISK drive
> hdg: SAMSUNG COMBO SM-304B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide2 at 0x80a0-0x80a7,0x80b2 on irq 32
> ide3 at 0x80a8-0x80af,0x80b6 on irq 32
> hde: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=77545/16/63, UDMA(100)
> Partition check:
> /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0:hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> PDC202XX: Primary channel reset.
> ide2: reset: success
> hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> PDC202XX: Primary channel reset.
> ide2: reset: success
> unknown partition table
>
>
> --
> Måns Rullgård
> mru@users.sf.net
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