IDE knowledge anyone?

[Oliver Lehmann]

And regarding timing... even this drive works without any problem:

=== P8000 WDC Emulator 0.93 ===
INFO: PATA init start
INFO: PATA disk has been found
INFO: Number of logical cylinders: 1001
INFO: Number of logical heads: 15
INFO: Number of logical sectors per logical track: 34
INFO: Serial number:           00DG169020
INFO: Firmware revision: 05.05.01
INFO: Model number: ST3290A
INFO: Capabilities:

Its releasedate should be somewhere in 1994. So it predates the drive
I have problems with for two years:

=== P8000 WDC Emulator 0.93 ===
INFO: PATA init start
INFO: PATA disk has been found
INFO: Number of logical cylinders: 3148
INFO: Number of logical heads: 16
INFO: Number of logical sectors per logical track: 63
INFO: Serial number: WD-WT2891920914
INFO: Firmware revision: 23.16U73
INFO: Model number: WDC AC31600H
INFO: Capabilities: DMA, LBA, IORDY may be disabled, IORDY, Standard  
standby Timer values,
INFO: User addressable sectors for 28-bit commands: 3173184
Single Word DMA modes: 0
Multiword Word DMA modes: 1031
PIO modes: 3
INFO: Minimum Multiword DMA cycle time per word: 120ns
INFO: Recommended Multiword DMA cycle time: 120ns
INFO: Minimum PIO transfer cycle time without flow control: 160ns
INFO: Minimum PIO cycle time with IORDY flow control: 120ns
INFO: Additional support: 0
ERROR: read error at address: 0 / errorcode is: 04

Other WD drives I own from '98 and '99 also work. Also a Samsung 560MB
drive from 1995 which is also doing LBA works fine.

Regards, Oliver


Oliver Lehmann <lehmann at ans-netz.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> OK, i tried now to set Drive/Head first before I set all the other
> registers. No success.
> I then added a 10ms delay after the data is set for each register,
> disable /WR and then wait another 10ms before I execute the next
> register.
> I also added status checks after each register setting. It stays 0x50
> everytime I check it and just after I issue the command it goes to
> 0x59.
>
> Feel a bit clueless here :/
>
> Oliver
>
>
> Oliver Lehmann <lehmann at ans-netz.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi Toby,
>>
>> Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> I think Jon is probably on to something.
>>>
>>> You can check out the delays in my PIO bit-banging code here:
>>> http://www.telegraphics.com.au/svn/picide/trunk/
>>>
>>> I tested it on a few drives & spent a lot of quality time with the  
>>> spec...of course I can't guarantee it would work for your specific  
>>> drive, but it might give you a clue where a delay is missing.
>>
>> I think that what goes wrong in my code is the pure reading/writing
>> stuff since the IDENTIFY command works without any problem. So I
>> checked checked your ASM code for the PIC specific for that purpose.
>>
>> From what I see in "ide_lbacmd" in ide.asm, you wait for BSY and DRQ
>> to get low, via "ide_devselect", then issue the drive+head register,
>> wait again for BSY and DRQ still in  "ide_devselect" . Then, back in
>> "ide_lbacmd" you issue the other sector/cyl/head registers. Right
>> after that you issue the command to execute without any further
>> waiting.
>>
>> Now is the point where I get the error bit - so how the data is read
>> is probably not important here.
>>
>> I'll tra to "redo" your code tonight, but beside that you issue the
>> drive+head first and I do just before I issue the command, I don't
>> see a big difference here.
>>
>> I wonder if I could query the drive for the sector/cyl/head data it
>> works with to see if they where recieved correctly. I guess it just
>> gets invalid data for at least one of this so it response with ERR
>> for any read or write command because of "invalid addressing" (I
>> think).
>> Do you know if there is a way to find out what sector/cyl/head the
>> drive tried to process the command?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Oliver