Re: RE :sata_sil + UDMA CRC errors

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

  Hello, Alexander & Jeremy.

Alexander Shaposhnikov wrote:
> Hellow Tejun
> 
> I tried your patch (by the way, it cannot be applied by patch utility -it
> complains about malformed expression on line 19 and so on)
> Default reads in 500mv. With 600mv, I am starting to get CRC errors for
> Seagate drive (no errors with 2.6.13-git4). Samsung drive produces so many
> errors, that it is unusable both with and without patch.

  Ugh... that's ugly. :-/

  Jeremy, apparantly my little patch doesn't do any good.  Please ignore it.

> Concerning K8N-DL motherboard -current BIOS 1004 is very buggy. It has
> screwed up ACPI APIC table. To use onboard lan and usb, I have to boot with 
> pci=noacpi boot option. And I cannot use 1003, as I have DualCore Opterons, 
> and 1004 the only one which supports them!
> 
> There is long problem with Nvidia CK804 southbridge sata under Linux.
> Despite that the board was released some 8 month ago, it still cannot be
> used! And nobody seems to care about this. ASUS in the least. 
> I was able to boot from NVidia SATA with latest kernel and irqpoll option.
> At first I thought that all my problems are gone at last, but the god
> decided differently. It works at light disk load, but havy load lead to
> system freeze. No errors, just dead freeze. I returned to silicon3114 sata.
> At least, I have one working drive now:)
> 

  I fear that there's nothing much else I can do about this K8N-DL sil 
CRC error.  I've read the hw doc but couldn't find anything which seems 
helpful.  Let's hope something (BIOS update?) comes up soon.

  Sorry.

-- 
tejun