Thank You very much indeed for the prompt answer!
Am checking now the syscall...
In all cases, am nearly there...for the moment the only things not working
on Ubuntu amd64 is the SD reader and *sometimes* the ath5k module for the
wireless...

Cheers!

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Sitsofe Wheeler <email address hidden> wrote:

> (Please subscribe yourself to bugs if you are asking questions and want
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>
> DiVoRaM:
> The -84 hell is for because Linux kernel syscalls typically return negative
> numbers on errors: http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/lk/lk-4.html<http://www.win.tue.nl/%7Eaeb/linux/lk/lk-4.html>
> .
>
> Can you reproduce this problem with a Jaunty liveCD?
>
> --
> Ricoh R5C822 SDHC Card reader I/O errors
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/247819
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> (replies indicate that this problem wasn't specific to SDHC, more like
> specific to this Ricoh reader.  updating description and tags...  Also,
> 2.6.27-10 maybe have solved it.)
>
> Greetings.
>
> I've recently bought a 4GB SDHC memory card from Adata (class 6) to try it
> out on my Acer Aspire 5920G laptop, running Ubuntu Hardy and Windows XP. It
> has one of those 5-in-1 card readers (SD™, MMC, MS, MS PRO, xD) that you get
> to see in a number of Acer laptops today. Unfortunately I wasn't able to
> make use of the card because a the system threw a briefcase full of errors
> back at me. I found out that just by inserting the card into the card slot
> already generates a bunch of errors as seen by dmesg:
>
> [  495.406662] mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address 0002
> [  495.437069] mmcblk0: mmc0:0002 SD    3948544KiB
> [  495.437129]  mmcblk0: p1
> [  495.486638] mmcblk0: error -110 transferring data
> [  495.486653] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 32
> [  495.486661] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0, logical block 4
> [  495.486672] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 40
> [  495.486677] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0, logical block 5
> [  495.486685] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 48
> [  495.486690] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0, logical block 6
> [  495.486697] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 56
> [  495.486702] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0, logical block 7
> [  495.486709] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 64
> [  495.486714] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0, logical block 8
> [  495.486721] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 72
> [  495.486726] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0, logical block 9
> [  495.486734] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 80
> [  495.486739] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0, logical block 10
> [  495.486746] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 88
> [  495.486751] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0, logical block 11
> [  495.500565] mmcblk0: error -110 transferring data
> [  495.500577] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 7897024
> [  495.500585] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0, logical block 987128
> [  495.520101] mmcblk0: error -110 transferring data
> [  495.520115] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 7897024
> [  495.520123] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0, logical block 987128
> [  495.534780] mmcblk0: error -110 transferring data
> [  495.534794] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 32
> [  495.550827] mmcblk0: error -110 transferring data
> [  495.550840] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 96
> etc...
>
> Actually the first time I noticed the problem was when I attempted to copy
> roughly 800 MB of files over to the card in nautilus. This was the first
> time I ever used a SDHC card or the card reader. The progress came to about
> 200 MB and then stopped with an error: Error writing to file: Input/output
> error
> Looking at syslog/dmesg, I could see hundreds more of those i/o errors,
> including a few of these entries:
>
> ...
> [  670.808329] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 350
> [  670.810394] mmc0: Got data interrupt 0x00600000 even though no data
> operation
>  was in progress.
> [  670.810400] sdhci: ============== REGISTER DUMP ==============
> [  670.810407] sdhci: Sys addr: 0x32491200 | Version:  0x00000400
> [  670.810412] mmcblk0: error -110 sending read/write command
> [  670.810417] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 351
> [  670.810429] sdhci: Blk size: 0x00007200 | Blk cnt:  0x00000001
> [  670.810438] sdhci: Argument: 0x0000015f | Trn mode: 0x00000013
> [  670.810447] sdhci: Present:  0x01ef0000 | Host ctl: 0x00000006
> [  670.810453] sdhci: Power:    0x0000000f | Blk gap:  0x00000000
> [  670.810462] sdhci: Wake-up:  0x00000000 | Clock:    0x00000007
> [  670.810468] sdhci: Timeout:  0x00000009 | Int stat: 0x00000000
> [  670.810477] sdhci: Int enab: 0x00ff00fb | Sig enab: 0x00ff00fb
> [  670.810483] sdhci: AC12 err: 0x00000000 | Slot int: 0x00000000
> [  670.810491] sdhci: Caps:     0x01f021a1 | Max curr: 0x00000040
> [  670.810495] sdhci: ===========================================
> [  670.810505] FAT: FAT read failed (blocknr 288)
> [  670.812519] mmcblk0: error -110 sending read/write command
> [  670.814585] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 1021687
> ...
>
> At first I believed it was a faulty SDHC card, but a colleague of mine
> tested the card on his Vista laptop without any problems. I've tried
> formatting the card several times in GParted with a number of file systems
> including fat-16, fat-32 and ext3 of which all failed to work properly.
> Ironically, sometimes even GParted failed to recognize its newely created
> ext3 partition and instead listed it as unknown. Doing fsck on the card is
> another book with 5000 pages.
>
> Of course I tried to use the card on my other operating system, Windows XP,
> which surprisingly didn't even recogize the card. This gave me a reason to
> believe that my card reader was faulty. I later ruled that option out after
> installing a patch from microsoft (WindowsXP-KB934428-v3-x86-ENU.exe),
> allowing Windows XP to recognize 4GB SDHC cards and above. Now my card
> reader was able to work on WinXP (same card reader) without any problems. So
> I do believe I have traced the problem back to Ubuntu linux.
>
> Since the problem happens in Hardy with the latest updates applied, I am
> therefore reporting this as a bug. I am not sure how to fix this myself, but
> please let me know when a fix is available.
> Thanks.
>
> lspci | grep Ricoh
> 0a:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev
> 05)
> 0a:09.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host
> Adapter (rev 22)
> 0a:09.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
> 0a:09.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host
> Adapter (rev 12)
> 0a:09.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff)
>
> lsb_release -rd
> Description:    Ubuntu 8.04.1
> Release:        8.04
>
> uname -r
> 2.6.24-19-generic
>
>


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