From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: SiI 3112A + Seagate HDs = still no go? Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 23:59:26 +0900 Message-ID: <42FE0ACE.6010506@gmail.com> References: <12872CA9-F089-4955-8751-8CC4E7B2140A@bootc.net> <42FC166A.3020505@gmail.com> <0FDE8D5B-CFF2-44F9-8C98-9C5EC5CDAE92@bootc.net> <42FC87ED.6030201@gmail.com> <22B1D7C7-7BC8-449C-914C-FCE5226BCAF2@bootc.net> <655E2636-B4D4-42EC-B10C-C8B8EFA09E33@bootc.net> <42FCAD4D.7080707@gmail.com> <74C9A166-2FDC-45F8-BEB1-A574FD9602D4@bootc.net> <42FD493D.8020506@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.203]:17264 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751190AbVHMO7d (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:59:33 -0400 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i2so771032wra for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 07:59:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Boot Cc: Jeff Garzik , Linux-ide , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chris Boot wrote: > Some interesting developments! > > I installed a fresh copy of Windows, and all the VIA and nVidia and so > on drivers. At some point during all this (a period of relatively heavy > disk IO), the computer seemed to crash and I rebooted it. It then > worked fine for a while, but during my perfmon testing it seemed to do > the same thing. This time I left it for a while and it did eventually > wake up again, so I'm guessing the controller is a bit fubared. Perfmon > did indeed show several dips down to or very close to 0 during the > write operation, with peaks up to 48 MB/sec, which is pretty > respectable. So, time to replace the brand-new controller I guess. > > Now, do you think this is just my one particular controller card and a > simple return would fix the problem, or is it more likely a problem > with the whole range? It's an Innovision EIO SATA controller: http:// > www.ivmm.com/eio/products/index.htm > > Would it be a safer bet to go for the Adaptec controller of the same > variety? How reliable are they? I frankly don't know. Maybe it's just one faulty controller, connector or whatever. Maybe the card manufacturer screwed up somewhere. I mean, the only course I took in electronics is introductory digital circuits which used 74xx chips and push triggered clock on a breadboard. What would I know about gigahertz signaling error. :-p Though, one thing I can say is majority of 311x controllers don't seem to suffer from this problem. So, take your pick. -- tejun