On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:42:39 -0400
[email protected] wrote:
> I refitted the 4 patches you posted to a 22-rc6-mm1 kernel, and tried it on
> my Dell Latitude D820 laptop, using the libata driver for the disk and DVD.
> I got this:
>
> [ 0.702000] scsi0 : ata_piix
> [ 0.702000] scsi1 : ata_piix
> [ 0.702000] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x00000000000101f0 ctl 0x00000000000103f6 bmdma 0x
> 000000000001bfa0 irq 14
> [ 0.702000] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x0000000000010170 ctl 0x0000000000010376 bmdma 0x
> 000000000001bfa8 irq 15
> [ 0.857000] ata1.00: ATA-7: ST980825AS, 8.04, max UDMA/133
> [ 0.857000] ata1.00: 156301488 sectors, multi 8: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
> [ 0.864000] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
> [ 1.169000] ata2.00: ATAPI: PHILIPS DVD+/-RW SDVD8820, AD15, max UDMA/33
> [ 1.342000] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
> ....
> [ 1.342000] sda: sda1 sda2
> [ 1.433000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
> [ 1.435000] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM PHILIPS DVD+-RW SDVD8820 AD15 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> [ 1.454000] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
> [ 1.454000] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
> [ 1.454000] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
> [ 1.454000] ata2.00: Unable to set Link PM policy
>
> and /sys/class/scsi_host/host[01]/link_power_management_policy are both
> stuck at 'max_performance'. After reading the code,it *appears* that this
> is because:
>
> host0 - the 2 ports on the first ATA chain, and it's stuck because the DVD
> doesn't support the required power management, and *all* devices on the chain
> need to support it (as it didnt complain on ata1, the hard drive).
>
> host1 - the second ATA chain, not connected to anything, so no PM available.
>
> How do I double-check my analysis? Neither hdparm nor sdparm gave me anything
> on /dev/dvd that told me either way, and I'd like to verify that the base
> problem is "screwed by the hardware" before I give up....
>
>
>
Hi,
I only implemented the needed support for using ALPM for the ahci driver,
and it looks like you are using ata_piix.
Kristen
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