Re: ATA_STATIC_ID and AHCI bug or /dev/hands ?

From: Andriy Gapon <avg_at_icyb.net.ua>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 17:40:38 +0300
on 26/05/2009 16:45 Gavin Atkinson said the following:
> On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 21:41 +0300, triosoft_at_triosoft.com.ua wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I found some odd behavior of  ata device numbering. It seems, that there
>> is no effect of option ATA_STATIC_ID in CURRENT.
>> What I have:
>> supermicro server with 4 sata ports onto Intel ICH7 SATA300 controller
>> recent CURRENT
>> sata mode in BIOS is Enhanced
>> ahci support in BIOS in Enabled
>> option ATA_STATIC_ID in KERNCONF
>>
>> So, if I boot with 4 HDD connected to sata i found ad4,ad6,ad8,ad10 as
>> disks. but when I detach disk, which "was" ad8 in last case, and then
>> reboot - I see ad4,ad6,ad8! and not ad4,ad6,ad10! atacontrol list
>> doesn't show an empty ata channel. Only channels with HDDs connected. I
>> check 6.x 7.x on the same server with _the same configuration in bios_ -
>> and all works as suspected - there are empty ata channels, there are
>> really static device numbers. when I set AHCI to Disabled I have just
>> two ata channels (with AHCI - I have four, one for each sata disk) and
>> with or without HDDs connected I see empty channels and have really
>> static dev nums in the same CURRENT.
>> So my question is - is it my fault? does I miss something? Or it is a bug?
> 
> This sounds like a bug to me.  I think you're probably best submitting a
> PR, and please include (or link to) a verbose dmesg from both 7.x and
> HEAD, and the output of "atacontrol list" from both.

BTW, I can not reproduce this.
I also have ATA_STATIC_ID in *both* kernel configurations (emphasis is just n
case). My hardware is ICH9R-based. AHCI is enabled.
Both recent head and stable/7 enumerate drives exactly the same (ad6, ad10, ad16).

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Andriy Gapon
Received on Thu May 28 2009 - 12:40:41 UTC

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