Re: not able to drive a PCMCIA harddisk, what to do?

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:32:47 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:

> I put in a PCMCIA harddisk and wait with the hope something new appear
> as /dev/sda*, until the hope vanishes. I tried briefly google without
> luck, yet finding detail howto only for 2.4 kernel (in linux document
> project). Where do you suggest me to go on from here? Detail follows:
> 
> Script started on Mon 15 Nov 2010 02:43:07 PM UTC root@ubuntu:~# dmesg |
> tail

What a strange name for a machine running Debian >;-P

> [  834.112153] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0 
> [  834.115496] pcmcia 0.0: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0 (IRQ: 4) 
> [  834.195175] scsi5 : pata_pcmcia
> [  834.208260] ata4: PATA max PIO0 cmd 0x100 ctl 0x10e irq 4 
> [  839.372258] ata4.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x91) 
> [  839.372397] ata4.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x4) 
> [  849.536245] ata4.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x91) 
> [  849.536386] ata4.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x4) 
> [  859.700259] ata4.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x91) 
> [  859.700399] ata4.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x4) 

(...)

Maybe you find something of interest in this kernel mailing list thread:

2.6.23-rc9-git4: pata_pcmcia, disabling IRQ #9 and Re: libata and legacy 
ide pcmcia failure
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/3/21/1217354/thread

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón