From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: RE :sata_sil + UDMA CRC errors Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:56:44 +0900 Message-ID: <431EB95C.3070801@gmail.com> References: <200509070730.j877UxgA022401@ns.isp.nsc.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.202]:11803 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932093AbVIGJ4u (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 05:56:50 -0400 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id r28so962534nza for ; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 02:56:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200509070730.j877UxgA022401@ns.isp.nsc.ru> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Cc: 'Jeff Garzik' , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Carlos.Pardo@siliconimage.com, Paul.Taylor@siliconimage.com, lbattraw@insightbb.com, 'Yuri Kirsanov' , 'Jeremy Smith' , shaposh@isp.nsc.ru Hello, Alexander & Jeremy. Alexander Shaposhnikov wrote: > Hellow Tejun > > I tried your patch (by the way, it cannot be applied by patch utility -it > complains about malformed expression on line 19 and so on) > Default reads in 500mv. With 600mv, I am starting to get CRC errors for > Seagate drive (no errors with 2.6.13-git4). Samsung drive produces so many > errors, that it is unusable both with and without patch. Ugh... that's ugly. :-/ Jeremy, apparantly my little patch doesn't do any good. Please ignore it. > Concerning K8N-DL motherboard -current BIOS 1004 is very buggy. It has > screwed up ACPI APIC table. To use onboard lan and usb, I have to boot with > pci=noacpi boot option. And I cannot use 1003, as I have DualCore Opterons, > and 1004 the only one which supports them! > > There is long problem with Nvidia CK804 southbridge sata under Linux. > Despite that the board was released some 8 month ago, it still cannot be > used! And nobody seems to care about this. ASUS in the least. > I was able to boot from NVidia SATA with latest kernel and irqpoll option. > At first I thought that all my problems are gone at last, but the god > decided differently. It works at light disk load, but havy load lead to > system freeze. No errors, just dead freeze. I returned to silicon3114 sata. > At least, I have one working drive now:) > I fear that there's nothing much else I can do about this K8N-DL sil CRC error. I've read the hw doc but couldn't find anything which seems helpful. Let's hope something (BIOS update?) comes up soon. Sorry. -- tejun