Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 May 2008 01:47:58 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PARIDE] Datastor EP-2000 problem |
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On Thu, 29 May 2008 02:04:59 +0200 Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl> wrote:
> Good day. > > Dug up a parallel port CD-RW consisting of a Philips CDD3801 24x/2x/2x > ATAPI CD-RW hooked up to a Datastor EP-2000 parallel interface chip. > > The drive has been verified to work correctly when used directly as IDE > and the parallel interface has been verified to work correctly with some > random other CD-ROM drive. The combination bombs out though. > > The drive is found: > > root@ax6bc:~# modprobe dstr > root@ax6bc:~# modprobe pcd > root@ax6bc:~# dmesg | tail -6 > pcd: pcd version 1.07, major 46, nice 0 > pcd0: Sharing parport0 at 0x378 > pcd0: dstr 1.01, DataStor EP2000 at 0x378, mode 4 (EPP-32), delay 1 > pcd0: Master: R/RW 2x2x24 > pcd0: mode sense capabilities completion: alt=0x51 stat=0x51 err=0x60 > loop=0 phase=3 > pcd0: mode sense capabilities: Sense key: 6, ASC: 29, ASQ: 0 > > trying to extract any data from it fails though: > > root@ax6bc:~# dd if=/dev/pcd0 of=/dev/null bs=2048 count=1 > 0+0 records in > 0+0 records out > 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 12.5765 s, 0.0 kB/s > > root@ax6bc:~# dmesg | tail -14 > pcd: pcd version 1.07, major 46, nice 0 > pcd0: Sharing parport0 at 0x378 > pcd0: dstr 1.01, DataStor EP2000 at 0x378, mode 4 (EPP-32), delay 1 > pcd0: Master: R/RW 2x2x24 > pcd0: mode sense capabilities completion: alt=0x51 stat=0x51 err=0x60 > loop=0 phase=3 > pcd0: mode sense capabilities: Sense key: 6, ASC: 29, ASQ: 0 > pcd0: WARNING: ATAPI phase errors > pcd0: Stuck DRQ > pcd0: lock door before command: alt=0x58 stat=0x58 err=0x100 loop=64001 > phase=2 > pcd0: Request sense before command: alt=0x58 stat=0x58 err=0x100 > loop=64001 phase=2 > pcd0: generic packet before command: alt=0x58 stat=0x58 err=0x100 > loop=64001 phase=2 > pcd0: Request sense before command: alt=0x58 stat=0x58 err=0x100 > loop=64001 phase=2 > pcd0: unlock door before command: alt=0x58 stat=0x58 err=0x100 > loop=64001 phase=2 > pcd0: Request sense before command: alt=0x58 stat=0x58 err=0x100 > loop=64001 phase=2 > > and at this point the drive's stuck and needs a power cycle. I've tried > all modes available (4-bit, 8-bit, EPP-8, EPP-16 and EPP-32) and delays > from 0 to 10 and nothing changes behaviour. > > Changing the parallel port type in my BIOS from Normal to EPP to ECP to > ECP+EPP, no change. > > Behaviour was also the same with the drive's original firmware (which I > can sort of guarentee was the one it originally came with) and its > current most recent 1.7e firmware. > > I even tested a prehistoric 2.2.6 kernel where things were/are the same > again. > > As said, interface works with a different (CD-ROM) drive and drive works > fine as plain IDE. I haven't been able to test if it works correctly > under DOS or Windows with its own drivers as I don't have the drivers > and can't find them online. If anyone has DOS or Windows EP-2000 > drivers; a pointer would be mightely appreciated. > > Anyone any idea what this could be? Can patch/debug... >
I don't know of anyone who is likely to investigate this, sorry. All I can suggest is that you file it at bugzilla.kernel.org and be very patient :(
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