RE: [ACPI] hard drive errors on acpi s3 resume

[Li, S. <sha...@in...>]

Hi,
>-----Original Message-----
>From: acp...@li... [mailto:acpi-devel-
>ad...@li...] On Behalf Of Matthew Garrett
>Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 9:23 AM
>To: Alan Cox
>Cc: Pavel Machek; sdfa; acp...@li...
>Subject: Re: [ACPI] hard drive errors on acpi s3 resume
>
>On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 08:48:59PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
>> On Sul, 2005-11-06 at 17:27 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> > Also I'm afraid you'll have to ask this on ide lists; this is not
an
>> > ACPI but a driver problem.
>>
>> Its probably also an ACPI problem. ACPI provides disk suspend/resume
>> methods but nobody as hooked them to anything. Basically you
shouldn't
>> mix ACPI S3 and IDE disks in Linux until this is done.
>
>There's a patch that floated on here a while ago - we're shipping it in
>Ubuntu. Hang on...
>
>http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/tmp/external-drivers-ide_sleep.dpatch is
>what we're shipping - it seems to work in most cases, but not all. It
>implements the _GTM and _STM methods, but doesn't do anything with _GTF
>since the IDE layer hasn't been resumed at the point where this code
>executes, so there's no existing mechanism to execute the taskfile
>commands returned. It may help in this case.
>
>(I've no idea why this hasn't been submitted upstream yet - it's not my
>patch...)
yes, this is the debug patch from me. As you said, it does nothing with
_GTF, so I didn't submit it.

Alan, is there any way we can execute the taskfile commands before the
IDE device resume?

Thanks,
Shaohua