vt6410 Problems

[Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>]

Greetings,

Using vanilla 2.6.15.4 on an ASUS P4P800, I have a Maxtor 4A250J0 attached
to the VT6410 IDE port. It shows up as /dev/hdf and no matter what I do,
the system believes it is being used and will not format or mount it.


Attempting to format the drive (regardless of partition size) gets:

root@bailey:/usr/src/linux# mke2fs -j /dev/hdf1
mke2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
/dev/hdf1 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem 
here!

(And yes, I have driven myself batty assuring myself that it is *NOT* in 
fact mounted.)


I can override the message and format it anyway with:

root@bailey:/usr/src/linux# mke2fs -j -F /dev/hdf1
mke2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
/dev/hdf1 is apparently in use by the system; mke2fs forced anyway.
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
2000 inodes, 8000 blocks
400 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=1
1 block group
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
2000 inodes per group

Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (1024 blocks): mke2fs: Device or resource busy
        while trying to create journal



But then when I dump the filesystem, I get:

root@bailey:/usr/src/linux# dumpe2fs /dev/hdf1
dumpe2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
dumpe2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdf1
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.


Clearly nothing was written to the drive...


The dmesg output is as follows:

[4294673.024000] VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
[4294673.024000] VP_IDE: VIA vt6410 (rev 06) IDE UDMA133 controller on 
pci0000:02:04.0
[4294673.024000] VP_IDE: 100% native mode on irq 19
[4294673.024000]     ide2: BM-DMA at 0xe400-0xe407, BIOS settings: 
hde:pio, hdf:pio
[4294673.024000]     ide3: BM-DMA at 0xe408-0xe40f, BIOS settings: 
hdg:pio, hdh:pio
[4294673.024000] Probing IDE interface ide2...
[4294673.492000] hdf: Maxtor 4A250J0, ATA DISK drive
[4294673.543000] ide2 at 0xec00-0xec07,0xe882 on irq 19
[4294673.543000] hdf: max request size: 1024KiB
[4294673.554000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and 
address 4
[4294673.573000] hdf: 490234752 sectors (251000 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, 
CHS=30515/255/63, UDMA(133)
[4294673.573000] hdf: cache flushes supported
[4294673.573000]  hdf: hdf1
[4294673.576000] Probing IDE interface ide3...



The hdparm information on the drive is:

/dev/hdf:

ATA device, with non-removable media
        Model Number:       Maxtor 4A250J0
        Serial Number:      A809GX2E
        Firmware Revision:  RAMB1TV0
Standards:
        Supported: 7 6 5 4
        Likely used: 7
Configuration:
        Logical         max     current
        cylinders       16383   65535
        heads           16      1
        sectors/track   63      63
        --
        CHS current addressable sectors:    4128705
        LBA    user addressable sectors:  268435455
        LBA48  user addressable sectors:  490234752
        device size with M = 1024*1024:      239372 MBytes
        device size with M = 1000*1000:      251000 MBytes (251 GB)
Capabilities:
        LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
        Queue depth: 1
        Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific 
minimum
        R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16  Current = 0
        Advanced power management level: unknown setting (0x0000)
        Recommended acoustic management value: 192, current value: 192
        DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
             Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
        PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
             Cycle time: no flow control=120ns  IORDY flow control=120ns
Commands/features:
        Enabled Supported:
           *    NOP cmd
           *    READ BUFFER cmd
           *    WRITE BUFFER cmd
           *    Host Protected Area feature set
           *    Look-ahead
           *    Write cache
           *    Power Management feature set
                Security Mode feature set
           *    SMART feature set
           *    FLUSH CACHE EXT command
           *    Mandatory FLUSH CACHE command
           *    Device Configuration Overlay feature set
           *    48-bit Address feature set
           *    Automatic Acoustic Management feature set
                SET MAX security extension
                Advanced Power Management feature set
           *    DOWNLOAD MICROCODE cmd
           *    SMART self-test
           *    SMART error logging
Security:
        Master password revision code = 65534
                supported
        not     enabled
        not     locked
        not     frozen
        not     expired: security count
        not     supported: enhanced erase
HW reset results:
        CBLID- above Vih
        Device num = 1 determined by the jumper
Checksum: correct




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