Re: ASUS M2A-VM - AMD690G - SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA - problem

[Srihari Vijayaraghavan <sriharivijayaraghavan@yahoo.com.au>]

--- Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> wrote:
> Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote:
> > --- Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> > Can the Skymaster S3132, based on Sil3132,
> > (http://umart.net/au/product_info.php?cPath=21_211&products_id=106108) do
> 64
> > bit DMA on Linux?
> 
> Yeah, sil3124/32 can do 64bit alright.

Sorry, I couldn't quite convince myself wasting a little bit of money on that.
Temptation is hard to resist though.

> Maybe you can cc the ATI person here if you know the address.

Will do. Need to write a good story :-).
 
> > PS: FWIW, SB600 with your ahci fix has been working fine for the past
> week.
> > Thank you for that.
> 
> Great.

(I got the clue from yours, thanks for that) Actually, here's a crude one I'm
using for 2.6.22-rc:
--- a/drivers/ata/ahci.c        Thu May 17 20:02:36 2007 -0700
+++ b/drivers/ata/ahci.c        Fri May 18 22:17:27 2007 +1000
@@ -1563,6 +1563,7 @@ static int ahci_configure_dma_masks(stru
 static int ahci_configure_dma_masks(struct pci_dev *pdev, int using_dac)
 {
        int rc;
+       using_dac = 0;

        if (using_dac &&
            !pci_set_dma_mask(pdev, DMA_64BIT_MASK)) {



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