pata_pdc202xx_old: fix UDMA mode for Promise UDMA33 cards
On Monday 04 January 2010 02:30:24 pm Russell King wrote: > Found the problem - getting rid of the read of the alt status register > after the command has been written fixes the UDMA CRC errors on write: > > @@ -676,7 +676,8 @@ void ata_sff_exec_command(struct ata_port *ap, const struct > ata_taskfile *tf) > DPRINTK("ata%u: cmd 0x%X\n", ap->print_id, tf->command); > > iowrite8(tf->command, ap->ioaddr.command_addr); > - ata_sff_pause(ap); > + ndelay(400); > +// ata_sff_pause(ap); > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ata_sff_exec_command); > > > This rather makes sense. The PDC20247 handles the UDMA part of the > protocol. It has no way to tell the PDC20246 to wait while it suspends > UDMA, so that a normal register access can take place - the 246 ploughs > on with the register access without any regard to the state of the 247. > > If the drive immediately starts the UDMA protocol after a write to the > command register (as it probably will for the DMA WRITE command), then > we'll be accessing the taskfile in the middle of the UDMA setup, which > can't be good. It's certainly a violation of the ATA specs. Fix it by adding custom ->sff_exec_command method for UDMA33 chipsets. Debugged-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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