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diff --git a/Documentation/ide/ide.txt b/Documentation/ide/ide.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 7aca987c23d9..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/ide/ide.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,256 +0,0 @@ - - Information regarding the Enhanced IDE drive in Linux 2.6 - -============================================================================== - - - The hdparm utility can be used to control various IDE features on a - running system. It is packaged separately. Please Look for it on popular - linux FTP sites. - - - -*** IMPORTANT NOTICES: BUGGY IDE CHIPSETS CAN CORRUPT DATA!! -*** ================= -*** PCI versions of the CMD640 and RZ1000 interfaces are now detected -*** automatically at startup when PCI BIOS support is configured. -*** -*** Linux disables the "prefetch" ("readahead") mode of the RZ1000 -*** to prevent data corruption possible due to hardware design flaws. -*** -*** For the CMD640, linux disables "IRQ unmasking" (hdparm -u1) on any -*** drive for which the "prefetch" mode of the CMD640 is turned on. -*** If "prefetch" is disabled (hdparm -p8), then "IRQ unmasking" can be -*** used again. -*** -*** For the CMD640, linux disables "32bit I/O" (hdparm -c1) on any drive -*** for which the "prefetch" mode of the CMD640 is turned off. -*** If "prefetch" is enabled (hdparm -p9), then "32bit I/O" can be -*** used again. -*** -*** The CMD640 is also used on some Vesa Local Bus (VLB) cards, and is *NOT* -*** automatically detected by Linux. For safe, reliable operation with such -*** interfaces, one *MUST* use the "cmd640.probe_vlb" kernel option. -*** -*** Use of the "serialize" option is no longer necessary. - -================================================================================ -Common pitfalls: - -- 40-conductor IDE cables are capable of transferring data in DMA modes up to - udma2, but no faster. - -- If possible devices should be attached to separate channels if they are - available. Typically the disk on the first and CD-ROM on the second. - -- If you mix devices on the same cable, please consider using similar devices - in respect of the data transfer mode they support. - -- Even better try to stick to the same vendor and device type on the same - cable. - -================================================================================ - -This is the multiple IDE interface driver, as evolved from hd.c. - -It supports up to 9 IDE interfaces per default, on one or more IRQs (usually -14 & 15). There can be up to two drives per interface, as per the ATA-6 spec. - -Primary: ide0, port 0x1f0; major=3; hda is minor=0; hdb is minor=64 -Secondary: ide1, port 0x170; major=22; hdc is minor=0; hdd is minor=64 -Tertiary: ide2, port 0x1e8; major=33; hde is minor=0; hdf is minor=64 -Quaternary: ide3, port 0x168; major=34; hdg is minor=0; hdh is minor=64 -fifth.. ide4, usually PCI, probed -sixth.. ide5, usually PCI, probed - -To access devices on interfaces > ide0, device entries please make sure that -device files for them are present in /dev. If not, please create such -entries, by using /dev/MAKEDEV. - -This driver automatically probes for most IDE interfaces (including all PCI -ones), for the drives/geometries attached to those interfaces, and for the IRQ -lines being used by the interfaces (normally 14, 15 for ide0/ide1). - -Any number of interfaces may share a single IRQ if necessary, at a slight -performance penalty, whether on separate cards or a single VLB card. -The IDE driver automatically detects and handles this. However, this may -or may not be harmful to your hardware.. two or more cards driving the same IRQ -can potentially burn each other's bus driver, though in practice this -seldom occurs. Be careful, and if in doubt, don't do it! - -Drives are normally found by auto-probing and/or examining the CMOS/BIOS data. -For really weird situations, the apparent (fdisk) geometry can also be specified -on the kernel "command line" using LILO. The format of such lines is: - - ide_core.chs=[interface_number.device_number]:cyls,heads,sects -or ide_core.cdrom=[interface_number.device_number] - -For example: - - ide_core.chs=1.0:1050,32,64 ide_core.cdrom=1.1 - -The results of successful auto-probing may override the physical geometry/irq -specified, though the "original" geometry may be retained as the "logical" -geometry for partitioning purposes (fdisk). - -If the auto-probing during boot time confuses a drive (ie. the drive works -with hd.c but not with ide.c), then an command line option may be specified -for each drive for which you'd like the drive to skip the hardware -probe/identification sequence. For example: - - ide_core.noprobe=0.1 -or - ide_core.chs=1.0:768,16,32 - ide_core.noprobe=1.0 - -Note that when only one IDE device is attached to an interface, it should be -jumpered as "single" or "master", *not* "slave". Many folks have had -"trouble" with cdroms because of this requirement, so the driver now probes -for both units, though success is more likely when the drive is jumpered -correctly. - -Courtesy of Scott Snyder and others, the driver supports ATAPI cdrom drives -such as the NEC-260 and the new MITSUMI triple/quad speed drives. -Such drives will be identified at boot time, just like a hard disk. - -If for some reason your cdrom drive is *not* found at boot time, you can force -the probe to look harder by supplying a kernel command line parameter -via LILO, such as: - - ide_core.cdrom=1.0 /* "master" on second interface (hdc) */ -or - ide_core.cdrom=1.1 /* "slave" on second interface (hdd) */ - -For example, a GW2000 system might have a hard drive on the primary -interface (/dev/hda) and an IDE cdrom drive on the secondary interface -(/dev/hdc). To mount a CD in the cdrom drive, one would use something like: - - ln -sf /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom - mkdir /mnt/cdrom - mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom -t iso9660 -o ro - -If, after doing all of the above, mount doesn't work and you see -errors from the driver (with dmesg) complaining about `status=0xff', -this means that the hardware is not responding to the driver's attempts -to read it. One of the following is probably the problem: - - - Your hardware is broken. - - - You are using the wrong address for the device, or you have the - drive jumpered wrong. Review the configuration instructions above. - - - Your IDE controller requires some nonstandard initialization sequence - before it will work properly. If this is the case, there will often - be a separate MS-DOS driver just for the controller. IDE interfaces - on sound cards usually fall into this category. Such configurations - can often be made to work by first booting MS-DOS, loading the - appropriate drivers, and then warm-booting linux (without powering - off). This can be automated using loadlin in the MS-DOS autoexec. - -If you always get timeout errors, interrupts from the drive are probably -not making it to the host. Check how you have the hardware jumpered -and make sure it matches what the driver expects (see the configuration -instructions above). If you have a PCI system, also check the BIOS -setup; I've had one report of a system which was shipped with IRQ 15 -disabled by the BIOS. - -The kernel is able to execute binaries directly off of the cdrom, -provided it is mounted with the default block size of 1024 (as above). - -Please pass on any feedback on any of this stuff to the maintainer, -whose address can be found in linux/MAINTAINERS. - -The IDE driver is modularized. The high level disk/CD-ROM/tape/floppy -drivers can always be compiled as loadable modules, the chipset drivers -can only be compiled into the kernel, and the core code (ide.c) can be -compiled as a loadable module provided no chipset support is needed. - -When using ide.c as a module in combination with kmod, add: - - alias block-major-3 ide-probe - -to a configuration file in /etc/modprobe.d/. - -When ide.c is used as a module, you can pass command line parameters to the -driver using the "options=" keyword to insmod, while replacing any ',' with -';'. - - -================================================================================ - -Summary of ide driver parameters for kernel command line --------------------------------------------------------- - -For legacy IDE VLB host drivers (ali14xx/dtc2278/ht6560b/qd65xx/umc8672) -you need to explicitly enable probing by using "probe" kernel parameter, -i.e. to enable probing for ALI M14xx chipsets (ali14xx host driver) use: - -* "ali14xx.probe" boot option when ali14xx driver is built-in the kernel - -* "probe" module parameter when ali14xx driver is compiled as module - ("modprobe ali14xx probe") - -Also for legacy CMD640 host driver (cmd640) you need to use "probe_vlb" -kernel paremeter to enable probing for VLB version of the chipset (PCI ones -are detected automatically). - -You also need to use "probe" kernel parameter for ide-4drives driver -(support for IDE generic chipset with four drives on one port). - -To enable support for IDE doublers on Amiga use "doubler" kernel parameter -for gayle host driver (i.e. "gayle.doubler" if the driver is built-in). - -To force ignoring cable detection (this should be needed only if you're using -short 40-wires cable which cannot be automatically detected - if this is not -a case please report it as a bug instead) use "ignore_cable" kernel parameter: - -* "ide_core.ignore_cable=[interface_number]" boot option if IDE is built-in - (i.e. "ide_core.ignore_cable=1" to force ignoring cable for "ide1") - -* "ignore_cable=[interface_number]" module parameter (for ide_core module) - if IDE is compiled as module - -Other kernel parameters for ide_core are: - -* "nodma=[interface_number.device_number]" to disallow DMA for a device - -* "noflush=[interface_number.device_number]" to disable flush requests - -* "nohpa=[interface_number.device_number]" to disable Host Protected Area - -* "noprobe=[interface_number.device_number]" to skip probing - -* "nowerr=[interface_number.device_number]" to ignore the WRERR_STAT bit - -* "cdrom=[interface_number.device_number]" to force device as a CD-ROM - -* "chs=[interface_number.device_number]" to force device as a disk (using CHS) - -================================================================================ - -Some Terminology ----------------- -IDE = Integrated Drive Electronics, meaning that each drive has a built-in -controller, which is why an "IDE interface card" is not a "controller card". - -ATA = AT (the old IBM 286 computer) Attachment Interface, a draft American -National Standard for connecting hard drives to PCs. This is the official -name for "IDE". - -The latest standards define some enhancements, known as the ATA-6 spec, -which grew out of vendor-specific "Enhanced IDE" (EIDE) implementations. - -ATAPI = ATA Packet Interface, a new protocol for controlling the drives, -similar to SCSI protocols, created at the same time as the ATA2 standard. -ATAPI is currently used for controlling CDROM, TAPE and FLOPPY (ZIP or -LS120/240) devices, removable R/W cartridges, and for high capacity hard disk -drives. - -mlord@pobox.com --- - -Wed Apr 17 22:52:44 CEST 2002 edited by Marcin Dalecki, the current -maintainer. - -Wed Aug 20 22:31:29 CEST 2003 updated ide boot options to current ide.c -comments at 2.6.0-test4 time. Maciej Soltysiak <solt@dns.toxicfilms.tv> |