In places where we have long delays that doesn't depend on too accurate
timing, use ata_udelay() instead of DELAY() so we dont uselessly spin
the CPU if not nessesary;
controllers (PDC203** PDC206**).
This also adds preliminary support for the Promise SX4/SX4000 but *only*
as a "normal" Promise ATA controller (ATA RAID's are supported though
but only RAID0, RAID1 and RAID0+1).
This cuts off yet another 5-8% of the command overhead on promise controllers,
making them the fastest we have ever had support for.
Work is now continuing to add support for this in ATA RAID, to accellerate
ATA RAID quite a bit on these controllers, and especially the SX4/SX4000
series as they have quite a few tricks in there..
This commit also adds a few fixes to the SATA code needed for proper support.
This adds support for cardbus ATA/SATA controllers. I get roughly the
same transfer speeds as on true PCI controllers. Nice to be able to add
a couble of "real" disks to a laptop :)
This gives +10% performance on simple tests, so definitly worth it.
A few percent more could be had by not using M_ZERO'd alloc's, but
we then need to clear fields all over the place to be safe, and
that was deemed not worth the trouble (and it makes life dangerous).
of the leftovers from the old version that really doesn't work anymore.
Add a reset function for host-end of the ATA channel. This is needed
for the SiI3112 in order to whack it back to reality if a device
locks up the SATA interface (thereby preventing that we can reset the
device). The result is that ATA now recovers from the timeouts that
happens with the SiI3112A and more or less all disks based on old
PATA electronics with a Marvell PATA->SATA converter. This includes
lots of the popular SATA dongles and the WDC Raptor disks..
Serialize access to the SATA channels, the chip messes up if
both channels are used at the same time.
The SiI3112 hereby takes the price as the most crappy SATA chip in
existance by a significant amount.
My advise to our userbase is to avoid this chip like the plague...
Setup decent transfer mode defaults as some BIOS's seem to put in
things that it *knows* doesn't work.
(Note to BIOS writers: stop doing that nonsense, we will get things
working with your crappy HW anyways, and then recommend users to buy
someone else's products that "just works", thankyou.. )
Limit the device transfer mode to ATA100/UDMA5 on generic SATA.
Since we dont know if the user is using a pure SATA device or an
old PATA drive with a SATA converter dongle, we need to limit the
speed used here to cover up the problems with Marvell ATA-SATA bridges
used in lots of SATA products.
This workaround is enabled for all detectable SATA controllers as they
seem to have semilar problems here. One notable exception is all the
Promise pdc2037x chips which just always work (cudos to Promise!).
