From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: sata_sil, writing bug with multiple cards? Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 10:38:57 +0200 Message-ID: <200707041038.57677.ak@suse.de> References: <200707040908.21512.ak@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:54260 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756359AbXGDIjK (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 04:39:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: 7091@blargh.com Cc: Tejun Heo , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List 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