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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: 7091@blargh.com
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sata_sil, writing bug with multiple cards?
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 10:38:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707041038.57677.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <courier.468B579E.00002ECF@blargh.com>

On Wednesday 04 July 2007 10:17:34 7091@blargh.com wrote:

> > 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. 

Perhaps the OpenBSD drivers program the SIL chip in a different way
that avoids this problem. 

> 
> > 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. 

Ok this means it's likely a SIL issue, not a chipset issue.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-04  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-03  6:42 sata_sil, writing bug with multiple cards? 7091
2007-07-03  8:51 ` Tejun Heo
2007-07-04  1:40   ` 7091
2007-07-04  1:48     ` Tejun Heo
2007-07-04  2:05   ` 7091
2007-07-04  3:22     ` 7091
2007-07-04  3:44       ` 7091
2007-07-04  3:53         ` Tejun Heo
2007-07-04  7:08           ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-04  8:17             ` 7091
2007-07-04  8:38               ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-07-04  8:52                 ` Tejun Heo
2007-07-10 10:55                   ` Tejun Heo
2007-07-12  3:21                     ` 7091
2007-07-04  3:41     ` Tejun Heo
2007-07-04  9:18     ` Alan Cox
2007-07-04  9:14       ` Tejun Heo
2007-07-04  9:26       ` 7091

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