[ltp] continuing problems with CF cards in a PCMCIA adapter

[Peter F. Patel-Schneider]

Hi:

There have been quite a few reports (inclding from me) that CF cards in
a PCMCIA adapter don't work. 

Does anyone have a fix for this problem?

There have been musings (on LKML) that the problem is related to some
underlying BIOS problem on (some) Thinkpads?  Has anyone experienced the
problem on something besides a Thinkpad (or something besides a Thinkpad
T60 or T60p)?

The behaviour that I get is that the card is not recognized when it is
inserted when the machine is running.  Here are the /var/log/messages
after inserting the card and adapter:

Mar 20 22:13:19 idefix kernel: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
Mar 20 22:13:19 idefix kernel: cs: memory probe 0xe4300000-0xe7ffffff: excluding 0xe4300000-0xe46cffff 0xe4e70000-0xe523ffff 0xe5db0000-0xe617ffff 0xe6cf0000-0xe70bffff
Mar 20 22:13:19 idefix kernel: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
Mar 20 22:13:19 idefix kernel: scsi6 : pata_pcmcia
Mar 20 22:13:19 idefix kernel: ata7: PATA max PIO0 cmd 0xa100 ctl 0xa10e irq 3
Mar 20 22:13:49 idefix kernel: ata7.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x91)
Mar 20 22:13:49 idefix kernel: ata7.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x4)
Mar 20 22:13:49 idefix kernel: ata7: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
Mar 20 22:14:24 idefix kernel: ata7.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x91)
Mar 20 22:14:24 idefix kernel: ata7.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x4)
Mar 20 22:14:24 idefix kernel: ata7: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
Mar 20 22:14:59 idefix kernel: ata7.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x91)
Mar 20 22:14:59 idefix kernel: ata7.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x4)
Mar 20 22:14:59 idefix kernel: ata7: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs


Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Bell Labs Research