From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: SATA driver issues? Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:55:37 +1000 Message-ID: <1161654938.10524.517.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <2F0FC2A92C0B154BB406D5E74CB3E6930336BD5F@3putt.int.lantronix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:14021 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030184AbWJXCBG (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:01:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <2F0FC2A92C0B154BB406D5E74CB3E6930336BD5F@3putt.int.lantronix.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Danny Sung Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 18:27 -0700, Danny Sung wrote: > Hi guys, I'm just writing to report some strange problems I'm seeing on > an IBM system with SATA drives. I'm following the comments in the > sata_svw.c file, so hopefully I'm writing the correct people. > > First my configuration: > > - IBM 7969AC1 - xSeries 326m (2x dual core AMD Opteron 285, 2GB RAM) > - Fedora Core 5, kernel 2.6.18 (package 2.6.18-1.220.fc5smp) > I specifically chose to run the 32-bit version of Fedora as well. > - IBM BIOS has the latest firmware from IBM (which did resolve the > issue of the system crashing). > - Hard drives are 2x WD2500JS's > - This particular server is using the BCM5785 (aka HT-1000) broadcom > chipset The HT1000 is using a frodo SATA cell ? (me doesn't know for sure :) What is the lspci output ? Ben.