From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261950AbTJMVPp (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:15:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261953AbTJMVPo (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:15:44 -0400 Received: from [217.157.19.70] ([217.157.19.70]:4361 "EHLO jehova.dsm.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261950AbTJMVPn (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:15:43 -0400 From: Thomas Horsten To: zipa24@suomi24.fi, "Kernel mailing list" Subject: Re: SiI 3112 SATA problem with nForce2 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:20:28 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <3F78555B0000EE1A@webmail-fi2.sol.no1.asap-asp.net> In-Reply-To: <3F78555B0000EE1A@webmail-fi2.sol.no1.asap-asp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310132220.28761.thomas@horsten.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 13 October 2003 22:04, zipa24@suomi24.fi wrote: > Has anyone tried to use SiI 3112 SATA controller (as in Asus A7N8X > board) with Maxtor discs? > > I'm using it with Maxtor 6Y160M0 and recent kernel (mostly 2.6.0-test5-mm4 > but I did try 2.6.0-test7, too) but I have problem if I torture with high > I/O load the whole computer hangs. Sometimes it is as little has running > "hdparm -t" on the disc but once I copied >50GB from /dev/zero to it > without problems. I'm using these devices and it works for me (using my Medley RAID driver). However, sometimes the system seems to hang for a while and then comes back, but it is quite rare. I think you're waiting for Andre's DMA fix that he was going to have reviewed by SiI today, and promised out ASAP :) In the mean time, hdparm -X 66 might help. Regards, Thomas th@fireball p $ cat /proc/ide/hde/model Maxtor 6Y080P0 th@fireball p $ cat /proc/ide/hdg/model Maxtor 6Y080P0