Re: sata_sil, writing bug with multiple cards?

[7091@blargh.com]

Andi Kleen writes:

> If it has >2GB or so it might be worth trying booting it with mem=2G

Nope, only 1GB of RAM.

> Most likely it is some sort of hardware bug that we might
> not be able to do much about. Have you tried contacting SIL or VIA? 

No, I haven't.  Like I mentioned above, the OpenBSD drivers seemed to work, 
or at least did with similar tests.  I would need to run the more extensive 
checks to be positive, but those take a lot of time, obviously.  And 
downtime for the box, a lot of which isn't really manageable, at the moment. 

> e.g. if you have some other system with a different chipset it might
> be useful to test the SIL controllers in those.

The previous motherboard was an AMD 760 chipset, and it had the same 
problem. 

> I would perhaps also try a newer kernel.

I can certainly try that - I admit 2.6.20.3 is a little old now.  This will 
probably take me a couple days - tomorrow is the 4th of July and a holiday 
for me.