Re: SB600 AHCI: Hard Disk Corruption

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> I've got an annoying problem with my athlon 64bit, 4gb ram, ???asus m2a-vm
> (->SB600 AHCI controller), SAMSUNG HD501LJ SATA Disk. I'm using kernel
> 2.6.26-rc3. Everything works fine, expect for standby/suspend/hibernate.
> Standby freezes, hibernate, I acually ???haven't tested lately cause I
> want suspend to ram to work first.
> 
> "echo mem > /sys/power/state; vbetool post;" (on text console)
> successfully suspends the system and it resumes as well, BUT: After
> resuming, things quickly turn bad: "file not fonund", kernel reports

iommu problem? Try it with mem=3G.

> * I read many threads in which Tejun provided patches for the SB600 AHCI
> Controller which seems to be seriously broken - if only i knew that in
> advance... Maybe he can fix this issue as well - last ressort. Otherwise
> I'll burn that mobo!

I suspect all you need is to burn one dimm.. or send it to me so that
I can reproduce it ;-).

> ???** After my firs install and configuring the system for a day, trying
> out suspend to ram smashed it with no backups, since then i didn't learn
> my lesson and smashed it again 2-3 times, this time with backups at hand
> though, ...

Boot it from cd ;-).

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