Lost CDROM on 9.1 with ATA_CAM on Promise controller

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 07:55:20PM +0200, Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> I have lost one of my CDROM drives (HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GH22LP20/2.00)
> after going from 7.4 to 9.1 when using ATA_CAM. It is attached to
> a Promise PDC20268 UDMA100 controller. A standard harddisk drive
> attached to this controller works well. Cables, controller and drive
> where replaced already.
> 
> Kernel gives me:
> 
> atapci1: <Promise PDC20268 UDMA100 controller> port 0xb000-0xb007,0xa800-0xa803,0xa400-0xa407,0xa000-0xa003,0x9800-0x980f mem 0xdf800000-0xdf803fff irq 11 at device 12.0 on pci0
> ata2: <ATA channel> at channel 0 on atapci1
> ata3: <ATA channel> at channel 1 on atapci1
> ...
> ada0 at ata2 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 0
> ada0: <Maxtor 7B300R0 BAH41G10> ATA-7 device
> ada0: 100.000MB/s transfers (UDMA5, PIO 8192bytes)
> ada0: 286188MB (586114704 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
> ...
> (cd2:ata3:0:0:0): got CAM status 0x50
> (cd2:ata3:0:0:0): fatal error, failed to attach to device
> (cd2:ata3:0:0:0): lost device, 4 refs
> (cd2:ata3:0:0:0): removing device entry
> ...
> 
> Attaching the CDROM drive to the controller that is integrated on
> the mainboard (Intel PIIX4 UDMA33 controller) does not show this
> problem (but here I don't have UDMA66).
> 
> It also works when not using ATA_CAM:
> 
> ...
> acd0: DVDR <HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GH22LP20/2.00> at ata3-master UDMA66 
> ...
> 
> So this semes to be a problem with the Promise controller and ATA_CAM.
> 
> Any ideas? Or should I file PR?

The controller in question is a Promise Ultra100 TX2.

The error message comes from sys/cam/scsi/scsi_cd.c, in function
cddone().  The logic is a little hard for me to follow (I understand
about 70% of it).  Look at lines 1724 to 1877 for stable/9.

1. Can you provide full output from a verbose boot when the CD/DVD drive
is attached to the Promise controller?

2. What firmware version the card is using?  The PDC20268 had many, many
firmware problems relating to ATAPI devices.

3. I wouldn't worry about ATA66 vs. ATA33; this drive can only support
up to about 22MBytes/second so ATA66 isn't going to get you anything,
so as a workaround, using the PIIX4 for it would not hurt you.

4. ONLY if this turns out to be a "controller thing": I'm not sure how
much effort should be spent trying to make this work, as the PDC20268 is
legacy/deprecated hardware (made/released 13 years ago).

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