Re: sata_sil problems (lockup at boottime)

[Oliver Bausinger <bausi@bausi.org>]

Am Montag 06 Dezember 2004 23:16 schrieb Gerald Hopf:
>
> I also tried the depreciated siimage driver (thanks to the
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA tip, i didn't notice this before and had the
> same problems) with kernel 2.6.9,
> works flawless (as far as i can tell from such a short test, hdparm -t =
> 60MB/s). No strange IRQ disabled errors during bootup. Flawless of
> course only if you ignore that it takes AGES until it finally gives up
> probing the second SATA port. I know someone who bought a second SATA
> harddrive just because booting took so long!
>

After some tests, I'm quite sure that the siimage is broken too with this 
drive although it boots and works like Gerald describes.

When md5sum a file, read bigger amounts of data from the disk and 
md5sum it again, the checksum changed. I can reproduce this permanently with a 
number of files. 
When I e2fsck the partition, I get bitmap differences. There's an error at 
bootup which says something about a Drive Error when booting. I'll post the 
exact error when I get back to the machine.

Greetings
Bausi