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nightfrost

Member

From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-04-16

Posts: 647

6-in-1 PCMCIA card reader

Since Ricoh refuses to release drivers for their SD-card reader found on some laptops (e.g. the lifebook p7010 which I happen to own), I got myself a 6-in-1 PCMCIA card reader. Whenever I plug in a card (SD), I get this:

Probing IDE interface ide2...
hde: Memory Card Adapter, CFA DISK drive
ide2 at 0x3100-0x3107,0x310e on irq 11
hde: max request size: 128KiB
hde: 29120 sectors (14 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=455/2/32
hde: cache flushes not supported
 hde:hde: status error: status=0x7f { DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error }
hde: status error: error=0x00 { }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hde: drive not ready for command
ide2: reset: master: ECC circuitry error

ide-cs: hde: Vcc = 3.3, Vpp = 0.0
 hde:
 hde:
 hde:
 hde:
 hde:
 hde:
 hde:
 hde:

Sometimes, the "hde:"-messages are given continuously, effectively slowing down the entire computer and sometimes causing a forced reboot.

Any ideas what this might be, and how to solve it?

TheDuck

Member

Registered: 2005-12-06

Posts: 20

Re: 6-in-1 PCMCIA card reader

Well crap!  You're not alone!

I have a CF to PCMCIA  adapter, and get practically the same thing!

Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: LEXAR ATA FLASH, CFA DISK drive
ide1 at 0x3040-0x3047,0x304e on irq 3
hdc: max request size: 128KiB
hdc: 1001952 sectors (512 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=994/16/63
hdc: cache flushes not supported
 hdc: hdc1
ide-cs: hdc: Vcc = 3.3, Vpp = 0.0
 hdc: hdc1
 hdc: hdc1
 hdc: hdc1
 hdc: hdc1
 hdc: hdc1
 hdc: hdc1
 hdc: hdc1
 hdc: hdc1
 hdc: hdc1
 hdc: hdc1

The machine is slow, server load goes up to about 5.00, until I eject this card.  Occaisionally after ejecting sometimes I get a nasty kernel panic.  Whatever it is exactly, seems to have appeared when switching over to udev.  On my older devfs kernel I dont experience this.  :: shrugs ::

nightfrost

Member

From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-04-16

Posts: 647

Re: 6-in-1 PCMCIA card reader

Hmm... I was really starting to think I was alone on this one. I have reported a bug here http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5678. It would be very good if you could continue there with comments the devs need, since I'm not gonna be able to spend much time online in the near future.

Also, my problems where sort of solved after upgrading udev to the version in testing. I'm having other problems though (mainly, something weird seems to happen to pmount-hal, so gnome-volume-manager doesn't automatically mount partitions. pmount from the command line works fine though).

Two more things; make sure you have the pcmcia-module loaded and that you have removed the pcmcia-cs package.

TheDuck

Member

Registered: 2005-12-06

Posts: 20

Re: 6-in-1 PCMCIA card reader

I just upgraded to the new udev 077-1 package with pcmciautils 011-1 both from the testing repository.  This combination supercedes hotplug, and pcmcia-cs, so these were removed. 

This has solved my problem, the card now detect itself correctly and functions without a hitch!