From: Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>
To: Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Via SATA not working here
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 08:23:23 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <414520BB.3080306@wasp.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040912191542.GO21202@uvt316-2.ruk.cuni.cz>
Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote:
> Hello
>
> I got a mainboard with a Via SATA controller, a Maxtor UATA 133 drive,
> and an Asus SATA dongle (probably a Marvell chip).
>
> When I was installing Linux the SATA controller got detected as IDE and
> basically worked. I would see occasional messages about DMA timeout
> while running from the install cd but the installation finished without
> errors.
>
> After building a 2.6.7 kernel I would get pretty much the same result.
> I get a few messages about DMA timeout at startup and then it runs. But
> I found it would eventually lock up with the hdd led shining steadily.
Could you try it with a 2.6.5 kernel please? There were some changes made between 2.6.5 and 2.6.7
that may well cause issues with HD's attached to dongles. There have been patches created for this
by they have not yet made the mainstream kernel.
I'd be interested to see how that pans out.
Regards,
Brad
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-13 4:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-12 19:15 Via SATA not working here Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
2004-09-13 4:23 ` Brad Campbell [this message]
2004-09-14 9:43 ` Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
2004-09-14 15:03 ` Eric Mudama
2004-09-14 17:54 ` Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
2004-09-14 18:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-14 19:57 ` Brad Campbell
2005-02-05 15:03 ` Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
2005-02-05 15:33 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2005-02-05 23:41 ` Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
2004-09-14 20:15 ` Via SATA already working here [was: not working] Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
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