Re: ahci, SActive flag, and the HD activity LED

2005-08-04 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On 8/3/05, Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 03 2005, Martin Wilck wrote: > > Have you (or has anybody else) also seen the wrong behavior of the > > activity LED? > > No, but I have observed that SActive never gets cleared by the device > for non-NCQ commands (which is probably w

Re: ahci, SActive flag, and the HD activity LED

2005-08-03 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
Martin Wilck wrote: Jens Axboe wrote: If I am reading the specs correctly, that'd mean the ahci driver is wrong in setting the SActive bit. I completely agree, that was my reading of the spec as well and hence my original posts about this in the NCQ thread. Have you (or has anybody else) a

Re: ahci, SActive flag, and the HD activity LED

2005-08-03 Thread Adam Goode
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 07:17 +0200, Martin Wilck wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > > >>If I am reading the specs correctly, that'd mean the ahci driver is > >>wrong in setting the SActive bit. > > > > I completely agree, that was my reading of the spec as well and hence my > > original posts about thi

Re: ahci, SActive flag, and the HD activity LED

2005-08-03 Thread André Tomt
Martin Wilck wrote: Jens Axboe wrote: If I am reading the specs correctly, that'd mean the ahci driver is wrong in setting the SActive bit. I completely agree, that was my reading of the spec as well and hence my original posts about this in the NCQ thread. Have you (or has anybody else)

Re: ahci, SActive flag, and the HD activity LED

2005-08-02 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 07:17:13AM +0200, Martin Wilck wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > > >>If I am reading the specs correctly, that'd mean the ahci driver is > >>wrong in setting the SActive bit. > > > >I completely agree, that was my reading of the spec as well and hence my > >original posts about

Re: ahci, SActive flag, and the HD activity LED

2005-08-02 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Aug 03 2005, Martin Wilck wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > > >>If I am reading the specs correctly, that'd mean the ahci driver is > >>wrong in setting the SActive bit. > > > >I completely agree, that was my reading of the spec as well and hence my > >original posts about this in the NCQ thre

Re: ahci, SActive flag, and the HD activity LED

2005-08-02 Thread Martin Wilck
Jens Axboe wrote: If I am reading the specs correctly, that'd mean the ahci driver is wrong in setting the SActive bit. I completely agree, that was my reading of the spec as well and hence my original posts about this in the NCQ thread. Have you (or has anybody else) also seen the wrong beh

Re: ahci, SActive flag, and the HD activity LED

2005-08-02 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Aug 02 2005, Martin Wilck wrote: > Hello Jeff, hello Jens, hello everybody, > > I am referring to the debate about whether or not setting the SActive > bit for non-NCQ ATA commands (e.g. http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/26/142). > > In our machines, this behavior of the Linux AHCI driver caus

ahci, SActive flag, and the HD activity LED

2005-08-02 Thread Martin Wilck
Hello Jeff, hello Jens, hello everybody, I am referring to the debate about whether or not setting the SActive bit for non-NCQ ATA commands (e.g. http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/26/142). In our machines, this behavior of the Linux AHCI driver causes the HD activity LED to stay on all the time. If