Re: sata_promise ata exceptions (2.6.20.6)

[Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>]

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Tomi Orava wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> Given that the last one was a hardware issue, I bought a new controller.
>> Despite my bad luck, given my price-range promise still seemed to be the
>> one
>> with the most good reports, so I went with that. I was going to go with a
>> sil, but I couldn't find one..
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't have a solution/fix for you, but out of curiosity,
> what hard-disks you have problems with ? Also what is the exact model
> of your SATA-controller ?

Whoops, forgot that bit. Sorry!

02:0c.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40718 (SATA 300
TX4) (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40718 (SATA 300 TX4)
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 72, IRQ 17
        I/O ports at d480 [size=128]
        I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
        Memory at feafd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Memory at fea80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
        Expansion ROM at 50020000 [disabled] [size=32K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2

My disks are WD WD1600JS 160GB drives (2 of them in linux software RAID 1).

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