GroundHog Day ?? {Re: 2.5.31 boot failure on pdc20267}

[Andre Hedrick]

Petr,

First an apology for the earlier pounce, please accept.
Second, we did this already and I think vger barfed.

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

On 20 Aug 2002, Petr Vandrovec wrote:

> On 16 Aug 02 at 2:27, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> > 
> > > Yes. If you'll look at d1510r0c.pdf from ATA guys, you'll find that
> > 
> > BUZZIT!
> > 
> > That is an totally new transport protocol and if you research the pci
> > device class you would know that it has nothing to do with the problem.
> > If you guys are playing with ADMA on DMA Hosts, oh my!
> 
> No. It just reveals that you have no idea what you are talking about.
> It was proven when you talked about EDD, and now it is proven again.
> Table 3 of rev 0f, page 11:
> 
> 
> Byte offset         Description              Attribute     Value
> 09h            Programming Interface Code  | See Table 4 | Defined in table 1
> 0Ah            Subclass code                 Read-only     01h - IDE
> 0Bh            Base class code               Read-only     01h - Mass Storage
> 
> and to your surprise, my IDE interface is:
> 00:1f.1 Class 0101: 8086:244b (rev 05) (prog-if 80 [Master])
> so if this device should not have Class 0101, then there is certainly
> some problem somewhere.
>  
> > The context of what is the EOT between the two HOST protocols has no
> > meaning.
> 
> Yes? Then please tell me what chapter 6, PCI Compatibility and Native
> Bus Master Adapters, pages 22-28 of rev 0c, talks about...
> 
> In rev 0f it is chapter 5, same name, PDF pages 19-26, document pages 10-17.
> EOT is back here in this revision, so actually current standard is OK,
> and Intel is misbehaving (or maybe just "extending" standard?).
> 
> And if you insist that this chapter does not describe UDMA busmastering
> programming interface, then please point me to the correct document.
> There is no other document with simillar name on the T13 web.
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