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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Silicon Image 3112 Lockups
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 02:09:29 -0400
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To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremy Smith <alceste@xmission.com>, Alexander Shaposhnikov <shaposh@isp.nsc.ru>, Carlos Pardo <Carlos.Pardo@siliconimage.com>, Paul Taylor <Paul.Taylor@siliconimage.com>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org

Tejun Heo wrote:
>  I don't know.  If some specific configurations are required for the 
> controller, they are usually done by BIOS (either mainboard BIOS or 
> per-controller BIOS), so BIOS update could affect the problem.  But 
> these are still just wild speculations.  Maybe we should contact ASUS 
> about this?


Note that, in the past,  system BIOS updates have cured sata_sil data 
corruption bug reports.  Updating BIOS is always a good idea.

	Jeff