From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: 7091@blargh.com Subject: Re: sata_sil, writing bug with multiple cards? Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:17:34 -0700 Message-ID: References: <468B19BA.6030202@gmail.com> <200707040908.21512.ak@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from blargh.com ([24.234.115.147]:45420 "EHLO blargh.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754980AbXGDIRf (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 04:17:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200707040908.21512.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: Tejun Heo , 7091@blargh.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Andi Kleen writes: > If it has >2GB or so it might be worth trying booting it with mem=2G Nope, only 1GB of RAM. > 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. > 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. > I would perhaps also try a newer kernel. I can certainly try that - I admit 2.6.20.3 is a little old now. This will probably take me a couple days - tomorrow is the 4th of July and a holiday for me.