Re: sata_sil, writing bug with multiple cards?

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 July 2007 10:17:34 7091@blargh.com wrote:
> 
>>> Most likely it is some sort of hardware bug that we might
>>> not be able to do much about. Have you tried contacting SIL or VIA? 
>> No, I haven't.  Like I mentioned above, the OpenBSD drivers seemed to work, 
>> or at least did with similar tests.  I would need to run the more extensive 
>> checks to be positive, but those take a lot of time, obviously.  And 
>> downtime for the box, a lot of which isn't really manageable, at the moment. 
> 
> Perhaps the OpenBSD drivers program the SIL chip in a different way
> that avoids this problem. 
> 
>>> e.g. if you have some other system with a different chipset it might
>>> be useful to test the SIL controllers in those.
>> The previous motherboard was an AMD 760 chipset, and it had the same 
>> problem. 
> 
> Ok this means it's likely a SIL issue, not a chipset issue.

Hmmmm... okay.  I'll take look at the openBSD driver.  I still have no
idea what it can be tho.  Maybe, FIFO setup?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun