On Sunday 13 July 2008 13:47:12 Ondrej Zary wrote:
quoted text
> On Saturday 12 July 2008 23:42:10 Ondrej Zary wrote:
> > On Friday 11 July 2008 22:14:09 Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > > commenting out the error check after ata_dev_init_params() call in
> > > > > ata_dev_read_id() function (libata-core.c), I got at least the
> > > > > device name. The capacity is 0 so it doesn't work, obviously:
> > >
> > > If you don't read the ID then it wouldn't.
> > >
> > > > I captured the IDENTIFY data from the virtual device. I'm not ATA
> > > > guru but looking at the data, there are zeros at many places where
> > > > something should be. That number starting at 0x78 looks like size of
> > > > the array in sectors (0x4C726C or 0x4C6C72 - the array is built from
> > > > 2.5GB and 6.4GB drives).
> > >
> > > The Ident data for the virtual device is fairly sparse but the specs
> > > don't require a lot of the field are filled in and only the LBA really
> > > matters.
> >
> > The problem is that ata_id_n_sectors() function:
> >
> > static u64 ata_id_n_sectors(const u16 *id)
> > {
> >         if (ata_id_has_lba(id)) {
> >                 if (ata_id_has_lba48(id))
> >                         return ata_id_u64(id, 100);
> >                 else
> >                         return ata_id_u32(id, 60);
> >         } else {
> >                 if (ata_id_current_chs_valid(id))
> >                         return ata_id_u32(id, 57);
> >                 else
> >                         return id[1] * id[3] * id[6];
> >         }
> > }
> >
> > fails to retrieve the LBA48 value.
> >
> >
> > This is because the ata_id_has_lba() test
> >
> > #define ata_id_has_lba(id)      ((id)[49] & (1 << 9))
> >
> > fails as the identify data contains only zeros at word 49 (byte 0x62).
> >
> > Another problem is that ata_id_has_lba48() would fail too - that will
> > break array over 2TB (if the controller BIOS and firmware can do it).
> >
> > Looks like this needs to force LBA48 with these virtual drives.
>
> The patch below fixes the IDENTIFY problem for me and makes the RAID array
> accessible. Is it OK or is there a better way to do it?
>

New patch below, this time with DMA forced on RAID volumes - as my firmware
does not identify the RAID arrays as DMA capable :(

diff -ur linux-2.6.26/drivers/ata/libata-core.c linux-2.6.26-pentium/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
--- linux-2.6.26/drivers/ata/libata-core.c	2008-07-13 23:51:29.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.26-pentium/drivers/ata/libata-core.c	2008-07-16 20:50:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -2030,7 +2030,8 @@
 		 * Note that ATA4 says lba is mandatory so the second check
 		 * shoud never trigger.
 		 */
-		if (ata_id_major_version(id) < 4 || !ata_id_has_lba(id)) {
+		if ((ata_id_major_version(id) < 4 || !ata_id_has_lba(id)) &&
+		    id[3] != 0 && id[6] != 0) {
 			err_mask = ata_dev_init_params(dev, id[3], id[6]);
 			if (err_mask) {
 				rc = -EIO;
@@ -2195,18 +2196,23 @@
 					       "not be fully accessable.\n");
 		}
 
-		dev->n_sectors = ata_id_n_sectors(id);
+		if (dev->horkage & ATA_HORKAGE_LBA48_FORCE)
+			dev->n_sectors = ata_id_u64(id, 100);
+		else
+			dev->n_sectors = ata_id_n_sectors(id);
 
 		if (dev->id[59] & 0x100)
 			dev->multi_count = dev->id[59] & 0xff;
 
-		if (ata_id_has_lba(id)) {
+		if (ata_id_has_lba(id) ||
+		    dev->horkage & ATA_HORKAGE_LBA48_FORCE) {
 			const char *lba_desc;
 			char ncq_desc[20];
 
 			lba_desc = "LBA";
 			dev->flags |= ATA_DFLAG_LBA;
-			if (ata_id_has_lba48(id)) {
+			if (ata_id_has_lba48(id) ||
+			    dev->horkage & ATA_HORKAGE_LBA48_FORCE) {
 				dev->flags |= ATA_DFLAG_LBA48;
 				lba_desc = "LBA48";
 
@@ -3946,6 +3952,9 @@
 	{ "TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S202N", "SB00",	  ATA_HORKAGE_IVB, },
 	{ "TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S202N", "SB01",	  ATA_HORKAGE_IVB, },
 
+	/* Has LBA48 but advertises neither LBA nor LBA48 */
+	{ "Integrated Technology Express Inc", NULL, ATA_HORKAGE_LBA48_FORCE, },
+
 	/* End Marker */
 	{ }
 };
diff -ur linux-2.6.26/drivers/ata/pata_it821x.c linux-2.6.26-pentium/drivers/ata/pata_it821x.c
--- linux-2.6.26/drivers/ata/pata_it821x.c	2008-07-13 23:51:29.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.26-pentium/drivers/ata/pata_it821x.c	2008-07-22 19:56:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -462,15 +462,19 @@
 static int it821x_smart_set_mode(struct ata_link *link, struct ata_device **unused)
 {
 	struct ata_device *dev;
+	unsigned char model_num[ATA_ID_PROD_LEN + 1];
 
 	ata_link_for_each_dev(dev, link) {
 		if (ata_dev_enabled(dev)) {
 			/* We don't really care */
 			dev->pio_mode = XFER_PIO_0;
 			dev->dma_mode = XFER_MW_DMA_0;
+			ata_id_c_string(dev->id, model_num, ATA_ID_PROD,
+					sizeof(model_num));
 			/* We do need the right mode information for DMA or PIO
 			   and this comes from the current configuration flags */
-			if (ata_id_has_dma(dev->id)) {
+			if (ata_id_has_dma(dev->id) ||
+			    strstr(model_num, "Integrated Technology Express")) {
 				ata_dev_printk(dev, KERN_INFO, "configured for DMA\n");
 				dev->xfer_mode = XFER_MW_DMA_0;
 				dev->xfer_shift = ATA_SHIFT_MWDMA;
diff -ur linux-2.6.26/include/linux/libata.h linux-2.6.26-pentium/include/linux/libata.h
--- linux-2.6.26/include/linux/libata.h	2008-07-13 23:51:29.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.26-pentium/include/linux/libata.h	2008-07-16 20:50:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -353,6 +353,7 @@
 	ATA_HORKAGE_IPM		= (1 << 7),	/* Link PM problems */
 	ATA_HORKAGE_IVB		= (1 << 8),	/* cbl det validity bit bugs */
 	ATA_HORKAGE_STUCK_ERR	= (1 << 9),	/* stuck ERR on next PACKET */
+	ATA_HORKAGE_LBA48_FORCE = (1 << 10),	/* Has hidden LBA48 */
 
 	 /* DMA mask for user DMA control: User visible values; DO NOT
 	    renumber */


-- 
Ondrej Zary
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