Re: Problems with SiL3114 and WDC WD2500SD-01K

[Larry Battraw <lbattraw@insightbb.com>]

	Hi Tejun,

  Thanks for the reply.  I've tried different PCI slots, different
ports, different cables, and lastly, win98 DOS.  DOS is able to
partition and format the drive without a problem, and I copied files
over, etc. without any errors.  Are there any diagnostics or tests I can
run to get a better idea of what's going on?

Larry

On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 09:44 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
>   Hello, Larry.
> 
> Larry Battraw wrote:
> >   I installed a SiL3114-based PCI card (Syba) and Western Digital
> > WD2500SD in my system recently and haven't been able to get the system
> > to write/read any data from the drive beyond the initial drive probe. 
> 
>   Are you positive that it's not a hardware problem?  Can you please try 
> the followings?
> 
>   * another port
>   * another cable
>   * try to use them in Windows :-(
> 
>   It seems that there are considerable number of crappy cables and 
> controllers out in the wild these days, and, combined with currently 
> not-so-robust error recovery of libata, they tend to result in unusable 
> state.
>