On Monday 04 January 2010 02:30:24 pm Russell King wrote:

> Found the problem - getting rid of the read of the alt status register
> after the command has been written fixes the UDMA CRC errors on write:
>
> @@ -676,7 +676,8 @@ void ata_sff_exec_command(struct ata_port *ap, const struct
> ata_taskfile *tf)
>         DPRINTK("ata%u: cmd 0x%X\n", ap->print_id, tf->command);
>
>         iowrite8(tf->command, ap->ioaddr.command_addr);
> -       ata_sff_pause(ap);
> +       ndelay(400);
> +//     ata_sff_pause(ap);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ata_sff_exec_command);
>
>
> This rather makes sense.  The PDC20247 handles the UDMA part of the
> protocol.  It has no way to tell the PDC20246 to wait while it suspends
> UDMA, so that a normal register access can take place - the 246 ploughs
> on with the register access without any regard to the state of the 247.
>
> If the drive immediately starts the UDMA protocol after a write to the
> command register (as it probably will for the DMA WRITE command), then
> we'll be accessing the taskfile in the middle of the UDMA setup, which
> can't be good.  It's certainly a violation of the ATA specs.

Fix it by adding custom ->sff_exec_command method for UDMA33 chipsets.
Debugged-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>