APMD has to have the ablity to remember the state.
Spindown is basically a power reset to the drive.
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Grant Grundler wrote:
> hi folks,
> I've been playing with hdparms on the OB800 (running debian 2.2 -
> that 2.2.18pre21 based) as shown on:
>
> http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mcba/hp800ct.html
>
> The appended patch attemps to fix the following errors seen when the IDE
> drive spins up after a sleep mode:
> hda: multwrite_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: multwrite_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> *or*
> hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataReady Error }
> hda: read_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
>
> After several retries, both result in "ide0: reset: success" and life
> is good again. The patch avoids the reset.
>
> I have two theories on what's wrong: drive forgets multmode was enabled
> *or* drive doesn't spin up media when poked. The web page above claims
> the drive forgets the hdparm -S (idle time before sleep) and provides a
> script to reset that. I've wondered if the same might be true for Multi-sector
> mode. Anyway, resetting MultMode seems to fix the problem.
>
> I've learned the drive will spin down in four different cases:
> 1) hdparm -S10 (50 seconds) and let the machine idle that long
> 2) BIOS APM has been idle and decides it time to sleep (I have
> mine set to 3 minutes right now)
> 3) "on/off" button on keyboard
> 4) hdparm -Y /dev/hda (this case still generates similar errors.)
>
> This patch does NOT fix another symptom:
> o "irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }" followed by "ide0: reset: success".
>
> enjoy!
> grant
>
> grundler at puffin.external.hp.com
> parisc-linux I/O hacker
>
>
> --- kernel-source-2.2.18pre21-2.2.18pre21.ORIG/drivers/block/ide-disk.c Wed Jun 7 14:26:42 2000
> +++ linux/drivers/block/ide-disk.c Wed Jan 10 15:03:15 2001
> @@ -123,6 +123,23 @@ static int lba_capacity_is_ok (struct hd
> }
>
> /*
> + * set_multmode_intr() is invoked on completion of a WIN_SETMULT cmd.
> + */
> +static ide_startstop_t set_multmode_intr (ide_drive_t *drive)
> +{
> + byte stat = GET_STAT();
> +
> + if (OK_STAT(stat,READY_STAT,BAD_STAT)) {
> + drive->mult_count = drive->mult_req;
> + } else {
> + drive->mult_req = drive->mult_count = 0;
> + drive->special.b.recalibrate = 1;
> + (void) ide_dump_status(drive, "set_multmode", stat);
> + }
> + return ide_stopped;
> +}
> +
> +/*
> * read_intr() is the handler for disk read/multread interrupts
> */
> static ide_startstop_t read_intr (ide_drive_t *drive)
> @@ -145,6 +162,32 @@ static ide_startstop_t read_intr (ide_dr
> return ide_started;
> }
> #endif
> + else if ((0x59 == stat) && drive->mult_count) {
> + /*
> + ** HP OB800 laptop HD (IBM-DMCA-21440) will spin down
> + ** and *forget* multi-mode parms when it spins up on
> + ** the next access. The following fixes the stat 0x51
> + ** w/error 0x4 messages and reset after spinning up.
> + ** ggg 9.1.2001
> + **
> + ** If first request which triggers resume is a write,
> + ** stat == 0x51 (vs. 0x59 for read).
> + **
> + ** 1) Check if HD forgot.
> + ** 2) If so, set them again, otherwise report error.
> + ** 3) I/O is still queued - will get retried (I hope).
> + **
> + ** REVISIT: Don't know how to easily check HD settings.
> + ** Not sure it's possible since it doesn't just seem to
> + ** be a simple register read. Not checking HD settings
> + ** risks an infinite loop/wedged system. I would expect
> + ** to get a different error for the SETMULT cmd.
> + */
> + {
> + ide_cmd(drive, WIN_SETMULT, drive->mult_req, &set_multmode_intr);
> + return ide_started;
> + }
> + }
> msect = drive->mult_count;
>
> read_next:
> @@ -331,24 +374,17 @@ static ide_startstop_t multwrite_intr (i
> }
> return ide_stopped; /* the original code did this here (?) */
> }
> - return ide_error(drive, "multwrite_intr", stat);
> -}
> -
> -/*
> - * set_multmode_intr() is invoked on completion of a WIN_SETMULT cmd.
> - */
> -static ide_startstop_t set_multmode_intr (ide_drive_t *drive)
> -{
> - byte stat = GET_STAT();
> -
> - if (OK_STAT(stat,READY_STAT,BAD_STAT)) {
> - drive->mult_count = drive->mult_req;
> - } else {
> - drive->mult_req = drive->mult_count = 0;
> - drive->special.b.recalibrate = 1;
> - (void) ide_dump_status(drive, "set_multmode", stat);
> + else if (0x51 == stat) {
> + /*
> + ** HP OB800 laptop HD (IBM-DMCA-21440) fix.
> + ** See comments in read_intr().
> + */
> + {
> + ide_cmd(drive, WIN_SETMULT, drive->mult_req, &set_multmode_intr);
> + return ide_started;
> + }
> }
> - return ide_stopped;
> + return ide_error(drive, "multwrite_intr", stat);
> }
>
> /*
> -
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