From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261848AbVCJEvJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 23:51:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262436AbVCJEt6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 23:49:58 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.195]:48295 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262197AbVCJEsu (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 23:48:50 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=knEzqGslR3Dld1aPazci8kkkIBu9cJM1cm7N/aXrw6dsZPTnYfVagJzrOyZpKsIPzcB1TuYWHzPswHPXfGVxFCgpWlRHjhiPeBQgat5mifbGuc2tKiXpS3ZoQrDpoxXWEInXWP4CDq2tUSmLFjHgxx2oPuHS3YWLmNIOWyA8uZM= Message-ID: <111a57ba050309204831b6047c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 23:48:44 -0500 From: John Yau Reply-To: John Yau To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: sata_sil & Seagate HD solution Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all, I recently bought a computer with a Silicon Image 3512 SATA chipset and a 200GB Seagate ST320082 hard drive without knowledge that these two pieces of hardware don't play nicely. However, I called Seagate tech support and they told me that upgrading my bios would fix the problem. Fortunately my motherboard's manufacturer posted an upgrade 2-3 days after I learned of the fix. I upgraded my motherboard's bios which updated the Silicon Image RAID bios to 4.3.53. That seems to have solved the incompatibility problem. I've had yet to have a crash during intense drive usage while running with the MOD15 bug blacklist off. Those poor souls that have a hard disk in the sata_sil blacklist, if you're willing to risk it, try upgrading your bios, comment out your hard drive from the black list and see if you're able to run at full speed without the drive hanging. John Yau