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 02:26:43 -0700 Message-ID: References: <468A0E24.7020000@gmail.com> <20070704101835.064bae93@the-village.bc.nu> 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]:55852 "EHLO blargh.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754980AbXGDJ0o (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 05:26:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070704101835.064bae93@the-village.bc.nu> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: 7091@blargh.com, Tejun Heo , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com Alan Cox writes: > Not suprised to be honest. We have a large number of reports that are all > of the following form > > "Nvidia chipset, Silicon Image SATA, corruption" > > and several reports that BIOS updates fixed it. Unfortunately we don't > know what the BIOS updates do (or indeed if what they do is board > specific) or how to work around it otherwise. > > Alan Well, that's the thing, and one of the details that may have gotten a little lost in the long reply chain. The Silicon Image SATA ports on the motherboard work fine. Silicon Image SATA ports on addon cards are showing corrutpion. I have also flashed the Motherboard BIOS to the newest available version, which got the onboard ports, and the addon card got flashed as well. :( A very frustrating problem.