--- "Darrick J. Wong" <[email protected]> wrote:
> James Bottomley wrote:
>
> > This doesn't seem to quite work for me on a SATA-1 disc:
> >
> > sas: DOING DISCOVERY on port 1, pid:1897
> > sas: sas_ata_phy_reset: Found ATA device.
> > ata1.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 781422768 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
> > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
> > scsi 2:0:1:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3400832AS 3.03 PQ: 0
> > ANSI: 5
> > SCSI device sdc: 781422768 512-byte hdwr sectors (400088 MB)
> > sdc: Write Protect is off
> > SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back
> > SCSI device sdc: 781422768 512-byte hdwr sectors (400088 MB)
> > sdc: Write Protect is off
> > SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back
> > sdc: unknown partition table
> > sd 2:0:1:0: Attached scsi disk sdc
> > sas: DONE DISCOVERY on port 1, pid:1897, result:0
> > sas: command 0xf785f3c0, task 0x00000000, timed out: EH_HANDLED
> > sas: command 0xf785f3c0, task 0x00000000, timed out: EH_HANDLED
> > [...]
> >
> > It looks like the first few commands get through (read capacity, ATA
> > IDENTIFY etc) and it hangs up on the read for the partition table.
>
> Hm... if I put in some debug printks in the qc_issue code, I get the
> same symptoms. I've observed that once again we get hung up on ATA
> commands where the tag number > 0. I also noticed this pattern:
>
> 1. ATA command w/ tag 0 (command A) issued.
> 2. Command A goes out to sas-ata.
> 2. ATA command w/ tag 1 (command B) issued.
> 3. Command A completes
> 4. Command B goes out to sas-ata.
> [...]
> 5. Command B times out.
>
> Very odd that this all works if there are no printks. I don't see
> anything obvious that would suggest why this apparent race seems to
> happen--unless there's some conflict between issuing an ATA command
> while completing another one.
Keep debugging.
The GPL open sourced SCSI/ATA Translation Layer (SATL) I maintain,
works perfectly for any SATA drive w/ NCQ (through the aic94xx
SDS/interconnect), and I haven't heard any complaints from people
using it.
Luben
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