From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik Andersen Subject: Re: Serial ATA (SATA) for Linux status report Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:38:39 -0700 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040115023839.GA2509@codepoet.org> References: <20031203204445.GA26987@gtf.org> <87hdyyxjgl.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> <20040114225653.GA32704@codepoet.org> <4005D141.7050408@superbug.demon.co.uk> <4005E1D4.6040807@pobox.com> Reply-To: andersen@codepoet.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from codepoet.org ([166.70.99.138]:14497 "EHLO codepoet.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266338AbUAOCik (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2004 21:38:40 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4005E1D4.6040807@pobox.com> List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: James Courtier-Dutton , Greg Stark , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, mplayer@jburgess.uklinux.net On Wed Jan 14, 2004 at 07:41:56PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > I'm pretty sure the "excessive interrupts" issue was successfully > tracked down by Jon Burgess (thanks!). He found this post describing an > ICH5 hardware issue, > http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-stable@freebsd.org/msg58421.html > > and he also submitted the attached patch. > > I've been meaning to rewrite his patch to isolate it more to ata_piix, > but in the meantime maybe folks could test this? Tried it on top of 2.4.25-pre4-libata1. I set the BIOS on my Asus P4P800 to Enhanced mode, and the kernel locked solid during boot while trying to clean /tmp.... Setting the BIOS back to Compatible mode allows my system to boot. -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--