Bug 90741
| Summary: | (IDE CF)SanDisk PCMCIA Flash card appears as two drives (hdc & hdd) | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | David Wilson <david> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-09-30 15:40:54 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Some older flash cards dont correctly decode master/slave. All anyone can actually do with them is keep a blacklist of "has no slave" cards. That was what I thought so I went looking for a blacklist and failed to find one. I did however find the following comment in ide-probe.c just above the function drive_is_flashcard(): CompactFlash cards and their brethern (sic) pretend to be removable hard disks, except: (1) they never have a slave unit, and (2) they don't have doorlock mechanisms. As my card is showing up in the log as "SunDisk SDP3B-85, CFA DISK drive" it must be being detected as a Compact Flash card (otherwise ide-probe.c would have printed "ATA DISK drive") and hence according to note (1) above there should be no reason to check for a slave drive. Now people use CF->IDE adapters its no longer true 8( If a PCMCIA/CF storage card is plugged into an IDE port it will presumably show up as an IDE device on a std controller whereas if it is plugged into a PCMCIA or CF port it will use the ide-cs driver. If this is the case, would it be possible for the latter driver to have code to disable probing for slave devices? Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem persists. The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/ |
Description of problem: When I insert my SanDisk SDP3B-85 85MB Flash card into my NEC Versa Vxi laptop it shows up as hdc and hdd. A Compact Flash card in a PCMCIA adapter shows up correctly as only one drive. Both work fine under the "Redmond" O/S :-). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.20-8 kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-13 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert SanDisk SDP3B-85 85MB Flash card into PCMCIA slot 2. Check /var/log/messages and or run fdisk -l 3. Actual results: /var/log/messages: May 12 22:38:57 localhost cardmgr[1505]: socket 1: ATA/IDE Fixed Disk May 12 22:38:57 localhost kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean. May 12 22:38:58 localhost cardmgr[1505]: executing: 'modprobe ide-cs' May 12 22:39:00 localhost kernel: hdc: SunDisk SDP3B-85, CFA DISK drive May 12 22:39:00 localhost kernel: hdd: SunDisk SDP3B-85, CFA DISK drive May 12 22:39:00 localhost kernel: ide1 at 0x100-0x107,0x10e on irq 3 May 12 22:39:00 localhost kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide May 12 22:39:00 localhost kernel: hdc: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } May 12 22:39:00 localhost kernel: hdc: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } May 12 22:39:00 localhost kernel: hdc: 166400 sectors (85 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=650/8/32 May 12 22:39:00 localhost kernel: hdd: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } May 12 22:39:00 localhost kernel: hdd: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } May 12 22:39:00 localhost kernel: hdd: 166400 sectors (85 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=650/8/32 May 12 22:39:00 localhost kernel: hdc: hdc1 May 12 22:39:00 localhost kernel: hdd: hdd1 May 12 22:39:00 localhost kernel: ide_cs: hdc: Vcc = 3.3, Vpp = 0.0 fdisk -l: Disk /dev/hdc: 85MB, 85196800 bytes 8 heads, 32 sectors/track, 650 cylinders Units = cylinders of 256 * 512 = 131072 byes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 * 1 649 83056 6 FAT16 Disk /dev/hdd: 85MB, 85196800 bytes 8 heads, 32 sectors/track, 650 cylinders Units = cylinders of 256 * 512 = 131072 byes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdd1 * 1 649 83056 6 FAT16 Disk /dev/hda: 20.0GB etc (this is my laptop's hard drive) Expected results: Only should get hdc not both hdc and hdd. Newer Compact Flash cards do not give these symptoms. Card does appear to be recognised as CFA (see /var/log/messages) even though it does not match "SunDisk SDCFB" string in function drive_is_flashcard() in file ide-probe.c. Additional info: Output from cardctl status and ident: Socket 0: no card Socket 1: 3.3V 16-bit PC Card function 0: [ready], [bat dead], [bat low] Socket 0: no product info available Socket 1: product info: "SunDisk", "SDP", "5/3 0.6" manfid: 0x0045, 0x0401 function: 4 (fixed disk)