atadev->param.model problem or bug with Marvell 88SE6811 chip

[Scott Long]

Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:00:13AM +0400, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
>> Andrey Chernov wrote:
>>> I have device detection problem with device attached to
>>> atapci0: <Marvell ATA controller> port 0xec00-0xec07,0xe880-0xe883,0xe800-0xe807,0xe480-0xe483,0xe400-0xe40f mem 0xfebffc00-0xfebfffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3
>>> (ASUS P5E3 motherboard).
>>> It seems that this controller not fills atadev->param.model as current 
>>> ata-all.c code expects:
>> Can you try this patch and show verbose dmesg with patched kernel?
> 
> I change them to atadev->param.config and atadev->param.reserved2
> since there is no such members in atadev directly. Results are:
> 
> ata2: IDENTIFY DEVICE data is complete, word2 is 0x0000
> ata2: IDENTIFY DEVICE data is complete, word2 is 0x0000
> 
> (per each channel)
> 

ATAPI devices should be getting their identifying strings via an
MMC INQ command instead of an ATA IDENTIFY command.  What happens
if you add the atapicam driver?

Scott