From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: sata_sil, writing bug with multiple cards? Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:52:13 +0900 Message-ID: <468B5FBD.3040104@gmail.com> References: <200707040908.21512.ak@suse.de> <200707041038.57677.ak@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.179]:17119 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757409AbXGDIwU (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 04:52:20 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so3170291wah for ; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:52:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200707041038.57677.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: 7091@blargh.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List 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