stuck in udma2

[ataraksia]

I believe there is a problem with ALi M5229 chipset. I'm using Karmic, however the same error was present in Jaunty.

Well, as the title indicates my notebook hp nc4010 is stuck in udma2, and obviously every operation involving HDD (Seagate ST9808211A) is very slooooow. I tried switching to udma5 (that's the fastest mode this disk can work in), but all I get is errors:

$ sudo hdparm -d1 -X69 /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 setting using_dma to 1 (on)
 HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
 setting xfermode to 69 (UltraDMA mode5)
 HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(setxfermode) failed: Input/output error
 HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

Read timings:

sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads: 214 MB in 2.00 seconds = 106.87 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 10 MB in 3.46 seconds = 2.89 MB/sec

Here's my hdparm -I output:

Code:

/dev/sda:

ATA device, with non-removable media
 Model Number: ST9808211A
 Serial Number: 3LG0KPZ0
 Firmware Revision: 3.00
Standards:
 Used: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 2
 Supported: 6 5 4
Configuration:
 Logical max current
 cylinders 16383 17475
 heads 16 15
 sectors/track 63 63
 --
 CHS current addressable sectors: 16513875
 LBA user addressable sectors: 156301488
 device size with M = 1024*1024: 76319 MBytes
 device size with M = 1000*1000: 80026 MBytes (80 GB)
Capabilities:
 LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
 Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum
 R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 16
 Advanced power management level: 128
 Recommended acoustic management value: 254, current value: 0
 DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5
      Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
 PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
      Cycle time: no flow control=240ns IORDY flow control=120ns
Commands/features:
 Enabled Supported:
    * SMART feature set
      Security Mode feature set
    * Power Management feature set
    * Write cache
    * Look-ahead
    * Host Protected Area feature set
    * WRITE_BUFFER command
    * READ_BUFFER command
    * DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
    * Advanced Power Management feature set
      SET_MAX security extension
      Device Configuration Overlay feature set
    * Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE
    * SMART error logging
    * SMART self-test
    * IDLE_IMMEDIATE with UNLOAD
Security:
 Master password revision code = 65534
  supported
 not enabled
 not locked
  frozen
 not expired: security count
 not supported: enhanced erase
HW reset results:
 CBLID- above Vih
 Device num = 0
Checksum: correct

And my lspci output:

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS200/RS200M AGP Bridge [IGP 340M] (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M]
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535/M1543 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+]
00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation M5457 AC'97 Modem Controller
00:09.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
00:0b.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M1/MC1 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Controller (rev 20)
00:0b.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M1/MC1 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Controller (rev 20)
00:0b.2 System peripheral: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711Mx 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Accelerator
00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
00:12.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
00:12.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
00:12.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)
00:13.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 330M/340M/350M

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Thank you for helping with making Ubuntu better by reporting this bug. However, it is most likely a duplicate of the earlier reporter bug #228302. I'm marking this bug as a duplicate of that bug. Please follow the conversation in that report from now on.
Thanks!