Subject: kern/22787: IDE led stays lighted forever
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <jmmv@menta.net>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 09/14/2003 18:38:06
>Number: 22787
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: IDE led stays lighted forever
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: kern-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sun Sep 14 16:39:00 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:
>Release: NetBSD 1.6ZB
>Organization:
Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
The NetBSD Project - http://www.NetBSD.org/
>Environment:
System: NetBSD dawn.local 1.6ZB NetBSD 1.6ZB (DAWN) #0: Sun Sep 14 17:32:28 CEST 2003 jmmv@dawn.local:/home/NetBSD/obj/home/NetBSD/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/DAWN i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
I have an Asus A7V8X-X motherboard; it comes with a VIA KT400 north
bridge and a VIA VT8235 south bridge. Attached to the IDE controller
are two ATA 100 disks in the first channel, a Toshiba 16x DVD-ROM
drive as secondary master and a Plextor 12/10/32A CDRW as secondary
slave.
After the kernel probes for disks, the IDE led stays lighted forever.
This is umm... annoying.
gendalia@ pointed me a way to turn off the led and make it work. It
is simple, from userland: 'mount /dev/cd1d /mnt'; this works even if
there is no disk in the drive. But, as you could imagine, this is
weird.
>How-To-Repeat:
As described below, connect a "buggy?" ATAPI drive to the secondary
slave channel and boot a kernel.
>Fix:
Googling a bit, I found this URL:
http://www.stanford.edu/~csapuntz/blackmagic.html
The following text has been extracted from it, which contains
indications on how to fix this issue:
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ATAPI slave causes drive light to stay on
The drive light is directly connected to the DASP-/PDIAG- signal on the
IDE bus. The PDIAG- signal is used by the slave to indicate its presence
on the bus to the master upon Hardware RESET, SRST, and Execute Device
Diagnostic.
Most ATAPI device will de-assert PDIAG- upon receiving an ATA command
after reset. However, some devices seem to require a PACKET COMMAND before
they deassert PDIAG-. Others seem to require a DEVICE RESET.
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For someone who knows the code, I guess this should be easy to fix...
Thanks.
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