Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 09 Sep 2003 13:53:50 -0700 | From | Scott Fritzinger <> | Subject | Multiple drives on 2 IDE controllers on 2.4.22 kernel |
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Background:
I have 4 CD burners, 2 on each channel of the MB's IDE controller:
VP_IDE: VIA vt8235 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci00:11.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xdc00-0xdc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xdc08-0xdc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
and a 120 Gig HD (boot drive) on a PCI Promise IDE controller:
PDC20268: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:09.0 ide2: BM-DMA at 0xa400-0xa407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0xa408-0xa40f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
and have ide-scsi attached to the 4 CD burners via a boot param:
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux-2.4.22 ro root=210 ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi ide_setup: hda=ide-scsi ide_setup: hdb=ide-scsi ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi ide2: BM-DMA at 0xa400-0xa407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hd ide3: BM-DMA at 0xa408-0xa40f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hd ide0: BM-DMA at 0xdc00-0xdc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hd ide1: BM-DMA at 0xdc08-0xdc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hd hda: LITE-ON LTR-48246S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdb: LITE-ON LTR-48246S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: LITE-ON LTR-48246S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: LITE-ON LTR-48246S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hde: Maxtor 6Y080P0, ATA DISK drive hde: attached ide-disk driver. hde: host protected area => 1 hde: 160086528 sectors (81964 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=158816 hde: hde1 hde2 hda: attached ide-scsi driver. hdb: attached ide-scsi driver. hdc: attached ide-scsi driver. hdd: attached ide-scsi driver.
I am using 4 instances of CDRDAO to burn a single image to the 4 different CD burners. When running with 2.4.21-ac1, everything ran 'mostly' fine. Occasionally one of the drives would write a VERY large lead-out, and the other drive on that channel would not eject until the lead-out was done on the other drive (eject command wasn't received?). Burning occurred at full speed in this setup, but the freeze-ups and delays were frustrating. The firmware on the drives is up to date, and burning an image to a single drive works flawlessly.
We updated to 2.4.22 to see if something had been fixed, and it looks like everything is working fine now, but everything is VERY VERY slow. The drives are burning at about 1/3rd speed as they were. It also appears as though 1 of the drives will receive a large chunk of data and spin-up, then another drive receives a large chunk and spins up, etc.. instead of uniformly writing to all 4 drives at the same time.
Running 'top' during the burn shows that kernel time was at 65% and user time was near zero. It is almost as if the ide driver or the ide scsi emulation layer was locked up (mutex'd?) on a single command until it completed (speculation! :-P)
Anyone else see this? Is there an explanation for this? Any pointers to docs that I should read? I've grep'd the Documentation and searched elsewhere, but couldn't find any more info on this topic. :-/ Below is some more information that might be helpful.
Thanks!
-Scott
uname -a: Linux doop1 2.4.22 #2 Mon Sep 8 14:09:27 CDT 2003 i686 unknown
/proc/cpuinfo: processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 1810.027 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow bogomips : 3604.48
/proc/ioports: 0000-001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-007f : rtc 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 0170-0177 : ide1 01f0-01f7 : ide0 02f8-02ff : serial(set) 0376-0376 : ide1 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f8-03ff : serial(set) 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1 9000-907f : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS300/305 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter 9400-9407 : Promise Technology, Inc. 20268 9400-9407 : ide2 9800-9803 : Promise Technology, Inc. 20268 9802-9802 : ide2 9c00-9c07 : Promise Technology, Inc. 20268 a000-a003 : Promise Technology, Inc. 20268 a400-a40f : Promise Technology, Inc. 20268 a400-a407 : ide2 a408-a40f : ide3 bc00-bc07 : CMD Technology Inc Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller c000-c003 : CMD Technology Inc Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller c400-c407 : CMD Technology Inc Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller c800-c803 : CMD Technology Inc Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller cc00-cc0f : CMD Technology Inc Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller d000-d01f : VIA Technologies, Inc. USB d400-d41f : VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (#2) d800-d81f : VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (#3) dc00-dc0f : VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE dc00-dc07 : ide0 dc08-dc0f : ide1 e000-e0ff : VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller e400-e4ff : VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] e400-e4ff : via-rhine
/proc/iomem: 00000000-0009e7ff : System RAM 0009e800-0009ffff : reserved 000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area 000c0000-000c7fff : Video ROM 000d0000-000d27ff : Extension ROM 000f0000-000fffff : System ROM 00100000-0ffeffff : System RAM 00100000-001ee67d : Kernel code 001ee67e-0022d87f : Kernel data 0fff0000-0fff2fff : ACPI Non-volatile Storage 0fff3000-0fffffff : ACPI Tables d0000000-d7ffffff : VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400 AGP] Host Bridge d8000000-dfffffff : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS300/305 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter e0060000-e007ffff : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS300/305 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter e00a0000-e00a3fff : Promise Technology, Inc. 20268 e00a4000-e00a41ff : CMD Technology Inc Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller e00a5000-e00a50ff : VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 e00a6000-e00a60ff : VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] e00a6000-e00a60ff : via-rhine fec00000-fec00fff : reserved fee00000-fee00fff : reserved ffff0000-ffffffff : reserved
lsmod: Module Size Used by Not tainted ide-scsi 9152 0 scsi_mod 85512 1 [ide-scsi] via-rhine 13416 1 mii 2416 0 [via-rhine] crc32 2816 0 [via-rhine] rtc 6044 0 (autoclean)
/proc/pci: PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 0). Master Capable. Latency=8. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0000000 [0xd7ffffff]. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge (rev 0). Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=4. Bus 0, device 8, function 0: VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS300/305 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter (rev 144). Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd8000000 [0xdfffffff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0060000 [0xe007ffff]. I/O at 0x9000 [0x907f]. Bus 0, device 9, function 0: Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20268 (rev 2). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=18. I/O at 0x9400 [0x9407]. I/O at 0x9800 [0x9803]. I/O at 0x9c00 [0x9c07]. I/O at 0xa000 [0xa003]. I/O at 0xa400 [0xa40f]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe00a0000 [0xe00a3fff]. Bus 0, device 15, function 0: RAID bus controller: CMD Technology Inc Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller (rev 1). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xbc00 [0xbc07]. I/O at 0xc000 [0xc003]. I/O at 0xc400 [0xc407]. I/O at 0xc800 [0xc803]. I/O at 0xcc00 [0xcc0f]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe00a4000 [0xe00a41ff]. Bus 0, device 16, function 0: USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 128). IRQ 12. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xd000 [0xd01f]. Bus 0, device 16, function 1: USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (#2) (rev 128). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xd400 [0xd41f]. Bus 0, device 16, function 2: USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (#3) (rev 128). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd81f]. Bus 0, device 16, function 3: USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 130). IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=32. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe00a5000 [0xe00a50ff]. Bus 0, device 17, function 0: ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge (rev 0). Bus 0, device 17, function 1: IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 6). Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc0f]. Bus 0, device 17, function 5: Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 80). IRQ 11. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe0ff]. Bus 0, device 18, function 0: Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 116). IRQ 12. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=8. I/O at 0xe400 [0xe4ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe00a6000 [0xe00a60ff].
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