Subject: Re: accessing IDE hard drive via pcmcia card
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/19/2004 21:27:39
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 03:01:59PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> In message <20040518212818.GA8866@antioche.eu.org>, Manuel Bouyer writes:
> >On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 11:58:54AM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> >> a test 2.0 kernel with a delay/retry loop in the initialization; that
> >> got a bit further than the stock kernel, but still no joy:
> >> 
> >> wdc2 at pcmcia1 function 0
> >> atabus2 at wdc2 channel 0
> >> wdc2:0: before reset, st0=0x80 (10), st1=0x0 (0)
> >> wdc2:0:0: after reset, sc=0x1 sn=0x1 cl=0x0 ch=0x0
> >> wdc2:0:1: after reset, sc=0x1 sn=0x1 cl=0x0 ch=0x0
> >> wdc2:0: wdcwait_reset() end, st0=0x50 st1=0x0
> >> wdc2:0: after reset, ret_value=0x2
> >
> >At this point it thinks there's only a slave device, no master.
> >My guess is that the 0x1 is cleared from ret_value in __wdcwait_reset().
> >
> 
> There is only one device on that controller; I have no idea why it 
> thinks it's a slave instead of a master.  (I also didn't think that 
> that was a problem.)  But from this line:
> 
> 	wdc2:0: before reset, st0=0x80 (10), st1=0x0 (0)
> 
> it looks like the first drive queried -- I assume the master -- never 
> cleared BSY.  I can increase the delay value and/or the loop counter, 
> but I have a feeling that that won't help.  What I will try when I get 
> home is to change the order of the two tests.  

How long do you wait ?
Per the specs, a reset can take up to 31s.

> 
> But from the output from the -current kernel, I don't think your guess 
> is correct.  I was seeing this:
> 
> wdc2:0 drive 0 wd_cyl_lo: got 0x80 != 0x02
> wdc2:0 drive 0 wd_cyl_lo: got 0x80 != 0x01
> wdc2:0 drive 0 wd_sector: got 0x80 != 0x01
> wdc2:0 drive 0 wd_sector: got 0x80 != 0x02
> wdc2:0 drive 0 wd_cyl_lo(2): got 0x80 != 0x01
> wdc2:0 drive 1 wd_cyl_lo: got 0x80 != 0x02
> wdc2:0 drive 1 wd_cyl_lo: got 0x80 != 0x01
> wdc2:0 drive 1 wd_sector: got 0x80 != 0x01
> wdc2:0 drive 1 wd_sector: got 0x80 != 0x02
> wdc2:0 drive 1 wd_cyl_lo(2): got 0x80 != 0x01
> 
> which means that the code in wdcprobe1 would have reset 0x1.

Both 0x1 and 0x2, the test is failing for both drives.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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