[fedora-arm] F23 - multiport sata card on Cubietruck

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 09/17/2015 08:51 AM, Pavel Holica wrote:
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> 2015-09-17 14:33 GMT+02:00 Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com 
> <mailto:rgm at htt-consult.com>>:
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>     On 09/17/2015 06:53 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
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>         On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:00 PM, Robert Moskowitz
>         <rgm at htt-consult.com <mailto:rgm at htt-consult.com>> wrote:
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>             I went searching for information on sata port multiplier
>             and found:
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>             http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg377619.html
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>             Is this still the status of this and if so how do I set
>             AHCI_HFLAG_NO_PMP to
>             true?
>
>         Well if you read the message you reference it states:
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>         "So add a module parameter to enable pmp usage, and default
>         this to off, so
>         that directly attached disks keep working normally."
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>         So it seems if you use a multiple you need to do a different
>         option
>         than without so it indicates it would need it. If you do "modinfo
>         ahci_sunxi" you'll see that actually the patch has landed and
>         there is
>         a enable_pmp parameter. So you'll need to create something like
>         /etc/modprobe.d/sunxi.conf and add a line "options ahci_sunxi
>         enable_pmp=1" line (no I've not verified that is correct so you'll
>         need to check it) and reboot.
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>
>     Ah, thanks!  I will try that.  I was looking at:
>     /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf and adding to the append line
>     something like:
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>     AHCI_HFLAG_NO_PMP=0
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>
>     So I would have been heading in the wrong direction...
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> Not entirely, it should also work having ahci_sunxi.enable_pmp=1 on 
> kernel cmdline.
> Also, you may need to rebuild initramfs by running dracut -f after 
> modifying modprobe.d files.

So either way I may need to rebuild initramfs?  I have yet to get this 
right.

I boot with this option.  It probably will not work; I will notice 
this.  Then as root I issue 'dracut -f' then reboot?

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>
>         Peter
>
>             But it seems there were more messages about this...
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>             On 09/16/2015 03:34 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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>                 I figured out the various ports on the muitiport card
>                 and have 2 sata
>                 drives I am testing with.
>
>                 One drive works fine.  But two drives it is a bit of a
>                 guess which one
>                 will come in as /dev/sda (the mSD card is
>                 /dev/mmcblk0).  And only one drive
>                 is visible.  Or at least gparted is only seeing one.
>
>                  From messages back last fall? I had that this board
>                 would let me use
>                 multiple sata drives, so there seems to be something I
>                 am missing.
>
>                 Right now each item has its own power supply:
>                 Cubietruck, Multiport card,
>                 Drive1, and Drive2.  So it is not a power issue (or
>                 shouldn't be).
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> Pavel Holica

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