Can someone (Alan?) give me some help on this.
What is the current status of this driver?

The Story:

I just purchased a PCI card for an older computer
so I cd. hook up a couple of external SATA's to it.
The card uses the INI-1623 chip:

[root@neuron ~]# lspci | fgrep Ini
02:0b.0 SATA controller: Initio Corporation INI-1623
PCI SATA-II Controller (rev 02)

When I boot the machine, the BIOS sees the 1TB drive on that card.
It's also seen by the OS. However, what looks like a driver
error occurs. This is from /var/log/dmesg:

<snip>
sata_inic162x 0000:02:0b.0: version 0.3
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0b.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
scsi5 : sata_inic162x
scsi6 : sata_inic162x
ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 mmio m4096@0xfeafe000 port 0xfeafe000 cmd 0xd400 ctl 0xd002 irq 23
ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 mmio m4096@0xfeafe000 port 0xfeafe040 cmd 0xde00 ctl 0xdd02 irq 23
ata5: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata5.00: HPA detected: current 1953525168, native 18446744072357965232
ata5.00: ATA-8: WDC WD10EACS-00ZJB0, 01.01B01, max UDMA/133
ata5.00: 1953525168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
ata5.00: ERROR: This driver doesn't support LBA48 yet and may cause
data corruption on such devices. Disabling.
ata5.00: disabled
ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
<snip>

The board advertised linux compatibility so (foolish me) I bought it
w/o asking on this list. The supplied driver on the Manu. site is for
kernel version 2.6.15 --- useless for the F8 system running on the
target machine (2.6.25.11-60.fc8).

Googling, I find that th LBA48 stuff was a "known problem" about a
year ago and people were working on it. Do any of you know if there
is a working patch or a workaround?

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On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 17:28:39 -0700 (PDT)
"Dean S. Messing" <deanm@sharplabs.com> wrote:

>
> Can someone (Alan?) give me some help on this.
> What is the current status of this driver?

Tejun Heo got the driver working sort of based on the minimal data sheet
available. Initio promised info but then went silent whenever asked but
recently threw an updated driver over the wall. From that Tejun updated
the in kernel driver and it now works well.

So basically you need a pretty current kernel (eg 2.6.26.x) and all will
spring to life.

Alan

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Alan Cox wrote:
>>
>> Can someone (Alan?) give me some help on this.
>> What is the current status of this driver?
>
>Tejun Heo got the driver working sort of based on the minimal data sheet
>available. Initio promised info but then went silent whenever asked but
>recently threw an updated driver over the wall. From that Tejun updated
>the in kernel driver and it now works well.
>
>So basically you need a pretty current kernel (eg 2.6.26.x) and all will
>spring to life.


Thanks very much, Alan. I guessed when I titled the subject line that
you would respond. In my Google poking, your name came up a
couple of times regarding this chip.

I suppose Fedora will package 2.6.26.x for F8 at some point. (I wonder
how long.) Till then I have a workaround: the machine has an
internal SATA port on the Mother board and I can buy a passive cable
that "converts" to the e-Sata form factor.

Again, thanks.
Dean

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