Very slow disk access via PCMCIA adapter

Simon Atkinson simonatkinson at operamail.com
Sat Aug 11 03:35:56 EDT 2007 

I'm running Knoppix 5.1.1 (CD version) on an IBM ThinkPad 600e laptop
(192 MB RAM; 400 MHz CPU). Everything boots up okay (but I have to use
nodma cheat code).

I'm trying to access an IBM Microdrive (512 MB) through the PCMCIA
slot using a PCMCIA adapter. While I can eventually access the drive,
and the files that it contains, the process take a very long time - so
much so that it really isn't usable.

Once Knoppix has booted up, I insert the PCMCIA adapter containing the
Microdrive. There are no beeps to indicate that it has been recognized
and configured correctly. After about 5-10 minutes a 'PCMCIA disk
[hde1]' icon appears on the desktop. Clicking on the icon to mount it
opens a window with a progress bar. The window's heading is 'mounting
/dev/hde1' (using source /mnt/hde1). However, the progress bar doesn't
change and remains at 0% throughout the mounting process. Finally
after a further 5-10 minutes the drive is mounted (indicated by the
green arrow on the icon). Clicking the icon invokes Konqueror, but
this takes a further 15 minutes(!) or so to display the contents of
the Microdrive (hde1).

The stages described above take similar lengths of time when I issue
the equivalent commands via a terminal window at the command line.

....dmesg listed below

Any ideas what the problem is? Should I be entering any cheat codes at
boot-up to aid PCMCIA access/configuration, or editing specific
scripts? (I've noted that Knoppix starts the cardmgr at start-up and
also adds an entry for hde1 to the /etc/fstab file.)

I would be extremely grateful for some help/advice.

Simon

dmesg:

Linux version 2.6.19 (root at Knoppix) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061028
(prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-19)) #7 SMP PREEMPT Sun Dec 17 22:01:07 CET
2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000bfd0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000bfd0000 - 000000000bfdf000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000bfdf000 - 000000000bfe0000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000bfe0000 - 000000000c000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
191MB LOWMEM available.
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 49104) 0 entries of 256 used
Zone PFN ranges:
  DMA             0 ->     4096
  Normal       4096 ->    49104
  HighMem     49104 ->    49104
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
    0:        0 ->    49104
On node 0 totalpages: 49104
  DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
  DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
  DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
  Normal zone: 351 pages used for memmap
  Normal zone: 44657 pages, LIFO batch:7
  HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap
DMI 2.2 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 IBM                                   ) @ 0x000fd6e0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 IBM    TP600R   0x00000001  0x00000000) @ 0x0bfd0000
ACPI: FADT (v001 IBM    TP600R   0x00000001  0x00000000) @ 0x0bfd0100
ACPI: BOOT (v001 IBM    TP600R   0x00000001  0x00000000) @ 0x0bfd0040
ACPI: DSDT (v001 IBM    TP600R   0x0000001d MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: BIOS age (1999) fails cutoff (2001), acpi=force is required to enable ACPI
ACPI: Disabling ACPI support
Allocating PCI resources starting at 10000000 (gap: 0c000000:f3fe0000)
Detected 363.973 MHz processor.
Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 48721
Kernel command line: ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us
apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt.gz nomce loglevel=0 quiet
BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix BOOT_IMAGE=linux nodma
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (0118a000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Memory: 188520k/196416k available (2747k kernel code, 7352k reserved,
958k data, 336k init, 0k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
    fixmap  : 0xffe16000 - 0xfffff000   (1956 kB)
    pkmap   : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000   (4096 kB)
    vmalloc : 0xcc800000 - 0xff7fe000   ( 815 MB)
    lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xcbfd0000   ( 191 MB)
      .init : 0xc04a6000 - 0xc04fa000   ( 336 kB)
      .data : 0xc03aef9c - 0xc049e7b4   ( 958 kB)
      .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc03aef9c   (2747 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 728.94 BogoMIPS (lpj=1457897)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux:  Disabled at boot.
Capability LSM initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000040
00000000 00000000 00000000
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 16k freed
CPU0: Intel Mobile Pentium II stepping 0a
SMP motherboard not detected.
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
Brought up 1 CPUs
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 1188k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd880, last bus=7
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fe700
PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0xe724, dseg 0xf0000
PnPBIOS: 23 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 23 recorded by driver
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 2.00 loaded.
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
* Found PM-Timer Bug on the chipset. Due to workarounds for a bug,
* this clock source is slow. Consider trying other clock sources
PCI quirk: region ef00-ef3f claimed by PIIX4 ACPI
PCI quirk: region efa0-efaf claimed by PIIX4 SMB
PIIX4 devres C PIO at 15e8-15ef
PIIX4 devres I PIO at 002e-002f
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 0000:00:07.0
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel:  domain hash size = 128
NetLabel:  protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel:  unlabeled traffic allowed by default
pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x15e0-0x15ef has been reserved
pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0xef00-0xefaf could not be reserved
PCI: Ignore bogus resource 6 [0:0] of 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
  IO window: d000-dfff
  MEM window: 70000000-dfffffff
  PREFETCH window: e0000000-f7ffffff
PCI: Bus 2, cardbus bridge: 0000:00:02.0
  IO window: 00001000-000010ff
  IO window: 00001400-000014ff
  PREFETCH window: 10000000-11ffffff
  MEM window: 12000000-13ffffff
PCI: Bus 6, cardbus bridge: 0000:00:02.1
  IO window: 00001800-000018ff
  IO window: 00001c00-00001cff
  PREFETCH window: 14000000-15ffffff
  MEM window: 16000000-17ffffff
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:06.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:02.1
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 98304 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 49152 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 4096)
TCP reno registered
Simple Boot Flag at 0x33 set to 0x1
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1186334511.848:1): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
fuse init (API version 7.8)
fuse distribution version: 2.6.1
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered (default)
io scheduler cfq registered
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, mapped to 0xcc880000, using 2496k,
total 2496k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=0
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:a640
vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00ca676, set palette = c00ca6d6
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 100000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcf0-0xfcf7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcf8-0xfcff, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: IBM-DBCA-206480, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1902B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide0: generic PnP IDE interface
ide1: generic PnP IDE interface
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: IBM-DBCA-206480, ATA DISK drive
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1902B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 12594960 sectors (6448 MB) w/420KiB Cache, CHS=13328/15/63
hda: cache flushes not supported
 hda: hda1
hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Loading iSCSI transport class v2.0-724.<6>PNP: PS/2 Controller
[PNP0303,PNP0f13] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 8
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
Initializing XFRM netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 15
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input1
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:07.2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 11, io base 0x00008400
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1)
ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance
Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev hda.
ReiserFS: hda: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find
reiserfs on hda
FAT: invalid media value (0xb9)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda.
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
cloop: Initializing cloop v2.05
cloop: loaded (max 8 devices)
cloop: /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX: 15609 blocks, 131072 bytes/block,
largest block is 131098 bytes.
cloop: loaded 32 blocks into cache.
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
aufs 2.6.19-20061211
Freeing unused kernel memory: 336k freed
IBM machine detected. Enabling interrupts during APM calls.
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
cpufreq: No nForce2 chipset.
powernow: This module only works with AMD K7 CPUs
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:02.0 [1014:00eb]
Yenta: Enabling burst memory read transactions
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:02.0, mfunc 0xfba97543, devctl 0x62
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x06b8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:02.1 [1014:00eb]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:02.1, mfunc 0xfba97543, devctl 0x62
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x06b8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage from process: cardmgr.
pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please
expect breakage unless you upgrade to new tools.
pcmcia: see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html
for details.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x80f: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x80f: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
agpgart: Detected an Intel 440BX Chipset.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0x40000000
piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.3: Found 0000:00:07.3 device
piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.3: IBM system detected; this module may corrupt
your serial eeprom! Refusing to load module!
piix4_smbus: probe of 0000:00:07.3 failed with error -1
NET: Registered protocol family 23
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
pnp: Device 00:0d activated.
00:0d: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
pnp: Device 00:0b activated.
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc, irq 7 [PCSPP]
pnp: Device 00:0e activated.
CS4232 WSS PnP manual resources are invalid, using auto config
CS4232 WSS PnP configure failed for WSS (out of resources?)
PnP BIOS detection failed for CS4232
pnp: Device 00:0e disabled.
cs4232-pnpbios: probe of 00:0e failed with error -16
CS4232 soundcard not found or device busy
pnp: Device 00:10 activated.
gameport: NS558 PnP Gameport is pnp00:10/gameport0, io 0x200, speed 677kHz
pnp: Device 00:13 activated.
nsc-ircc, chip->init
nsc-ircc, Found chip at base=0x02e
nsc-ircc, driver loaded (Dag Brattli)
IrDA: Registered device irda0
nsc-ircc, Found dongle: Differential serial interface
pnp: Device 00:0e activated.
CS4232 WSS PnP manual resources are invalid, using auto config
CS4232 WSS PnP configure failed for WSS (out of resources?)
PnP BIOS detection failed for CS4232
pnp: Device 00:0e disabled.
cs4232-pnpbios: probe of 00:0e failed with error -16
CS4232 soundcard not found or device busy
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:06.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:01:00.0
create - never read codec ready from AC'97
it is not probably bug, try to use CS4236 driver
Sound Fusion CS46xx: probe of 0000:00:06.0 failed with error -5
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.10.0-ioctl (2006-09-14) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
Mobile IPv6
pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 1
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: excluding 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff
cs: memory probe 0x60000000-0x60ffffff: clean.
pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia1.0
Probing IDE interface ide2...
hde: IBM-DSCM-10512, CFA DISK drive
ide2 at 0x100-0x107,0x10e on irq 3
hde: max request size: 128KiB
hde: 1052352 sectors (538 MB) w/60KiB Cache, CHS=1044/16/63
 hde:<4>hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
 hde1
ide-cs: hde: Vpp = 0.0
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt

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