[PARPORT] Avatar Shark on alpha still broken


Praveen Srinivasan (psrin0@pop.uky.edu)
Wed, 29 Dec 1999 21:25:34 -0500


I guess it kind of died off, but I posted earlier about my alpha 164sx
with a Lava Parallel PCI card and an Avatar Shark drive on it. I patched
the 2.2.13 kernel with the patch for parallel PCI support, but that
didn't seem to help. I still get data corruption with those messages
(see dmesg at bottom; I think the first time I tried to insmod pd, the
drive wasn't totally initialized, so I did it a 2nd time and it worked).
The drive works fine in Windows and x86 linux. If there's someway I can
help with tracking this bug down, I'd be more than willing to do it.

                                                                Thanks
for your help,

Praveen Srinivasan

dmesg:

4>PCI: Probing PCI hardware
SMC37c669 Super I/O Controller found @ 0x3f0
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
Starting kswapd v 1.5
parport0: PC-style at 0x8000 [SPP,PS2,EPP]
matroxfb: Matrox unknown G200 (PCI) detected
matroxfb: 640x480x0bpp (virtual: 640x13104)
matroxfb: framebuffer at 0x9000000, mapped to 0x0000000009000000, size
8388608
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x60
fb0: MATROX VGA frame buffer device
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
keyboard: Too many NACKs -- noisy kbd cable?
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
js: Version 1.2.13 using 530 MHz RPCC timer.
js: no joysticks found
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.20
CY82C693: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 41
CY82C693: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
CY82C693U driver v0.34 99-09-03 Andreas S. Krebs (akrebs@altavista.net)
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1040-0x1047, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1048-0x104f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
hda: Maxtor 91728D8, ATA DISK drive
hdd: ATAPI CD ROM DRIVE 50X MAX, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: Maxtor 91728D8, 16479MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=33483/16/63, (U)DMA
hdd: ATAPI 50X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 >
NTFS version 990411
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 96k freed
Adding Swap: 131496k swap-space (priority -1)
paride: version 1.04 installed
paride: epat registered as protocol 0
pd: pd version 1.05, major 45, cluster 64, nice 0
pda: Sharing parport0 at 0x8000
pda: epat 1.01, Shuttle EPAT chip c6 at 0x8000, mode 3 (EPP-8), delay 1
pda: , master, 8998912 blocks [4394M], (208/208/208), removable media
pda: Initialise device parameters: status = 0x1d0d0 = SEEK READY BUSY
IDNF UNC ??? TMO
 pda:pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x1d0d0 = SEEK READY BUSY IDNF UNC ???
TMO
pda: do_pd_read_drq: status = 0x1d0d0 = SEEK READY BUSY IDNF UNC ??? TMO

 unknown partition table
pd: pd version 1.05, major 45, cluster 64, nice 0
pda: Sharing parport0 at 0x8000
pda: epat 1.01, Shuttle EPAT chip c6 at 0x8000, mode 3 (EPP-8), delay 1
pda: AVATAR AR2250, master, 489472 blocks [239M], (956/16/32),
removable media
 pda: pda1
VFS: Disk change detected on device pd(45,1)
pda: AVATAR AR2250, master, 489472 blocks [239M], (956/16/32),
removable media
 pda: pda1
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO
PYXIS machine check: vector=0x660 pc=0xfffffc00003104a0 code=0x202
machine check type: unknown
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO
pda: do_pd_write: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO
pda: do_pd_write: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x1ffff = ERR INDEX ECC DRQ SEEK WRERR READY
BUSY AMNF TK0NF ABRT MCR IDNF MC UNC ??? TMO

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