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SubjectRe: Bad CD disk disables IDE DMA
Bodo Eggert írta:
> Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 15/08/07, Zoltan Boszormenyi <zboszor@dunaweb.hu> wrote:
>>
>
>
>>> I noticed that a bad CD of mine makes DMA disabled:
>>>
>
> [...]
>
>>> hda: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
>>> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
>>> hda: DMA disabled
>>> hda: ide_intr: huh? expected NULL handler on exit
>>> hda: ATAPI reset complete
>>>
>>> Every time I put the said CD into to drive and DMA is on, I get the
>>> above messages.
>>>
>> This might be intended.
>>
>
> Maybe, and maybe only a certain effect might be intended. And maybe I can
> help by asking these questions:
>
> 1) Does disabling DMA fix the seek errors, or does it hide them by the PIO
> interfce not printing them?
>

With DMA off no seek error occurs. When the transfer rate is
limited to UDMA3 I get this:

hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { AbortedCommand }
ide: failed opcode was: 0xec

Note the difference: the error code is different and
it knows the failed opcode as well. But DMA remains on.
Can it be a bad 80w cable? I don't think so, considering that
it doesn't occur for DVDs when using UDMA4...

> 2) If it does hide them, would filtering for seek errors be a sane thing to
> do, or does the DMA engine (or HDD) behave badly on these errors, or
> do bad-DMA devices report seek errors, too?
>
> 3) If it does not hide them, would re-enabling DMA on disk change be a
> feasable workaround?
> (proposed interface: use hdparm -d $num where $num =
> 0, 1: as before
> 3: DMA on, if switched off automatically, will be set to 2
> 2: DMA off, will be turned on (set to 3) on disk change)
>

The automatic DMA re-enabling would be a good solution.

> 4) Does libata work well enough for making all effort put into that old
> IDE layer be a waste of time?
>

Unfortunately libata (or pata_amd) doesn't work very well on this machine,
I tried to switch to libata for the CD drive but it lost the DVD-playing
capability.
It seems the error was that libdvdcss couldn't get the keys via the scd
device.
This is the main obstacle that stops me switching to Fedora 7 from FC6.
I reported it some time ago but got no answer. Look for subject
"DVD-playing, ide-cd vs scsi-cd drivers".

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi


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