From: manu <hislen@mindspring.com>
To: Hugo Mills <hugo-lkml@carfax.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SiI2112 + Seagate + nFroce2: no DMA!
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 09:06:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E132023.10206@mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040120085800.GB31330@carfax.org.uk>
Wonderful, so there is hope!
Yep my date was wrong because I was just coming back from flashing the
BIOS with a new version and clearing CMOS, which did not change a darn
thing and pushed me to send this mail :-)
RedHat seems to be releasing relatively old kernel so (what I have is
the latest from them), must say I never paid attention to it, now I will.
Thanks so much,
Emmanuel.
Hugo Mills wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 09:55:59PM -0800, manu wrote:
>
> Incidentally, did you know that the date on your computer is very,
>very wrong?
>
>
>
>>I'm about to give up on my SATA drive as I can't get it to work properly.
>>So I thought I may try asking the experts before falling back to PATA.
>>
>>I have seen many mails reporting the same issue, some of them 6-month old:
>>
>>- SATA drive comes up in pio mode, not in dma
>>- trying to turn on dma with hdparm is a nightmare: I/O errors, crash
>>with data corruption... I tried both:
>>
>> hddarm -d1 /dev/hde
>>
>>and:
>>
>> hdparm -u1 -c3 -d1 -X66 /dev/hde
>>
>>crash in both cases :-((
>>
>>
>>Here's my equipment:
>>
>>
>>ABIT AN7 motherboard (nForce2 chipset, SiI3112 SATA controller)
>>AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (+ 512 DDR / 400 MHz)
>>SATA HD Seagate Barracuda 160 Gb
>>
>>The SATA HD is my only drive. The only thing connected to my IDE
>>controllers is a DVD/CD combo.
>>
>>Running Linux Redhat 9.0
>>kernel 2.4.20-28.9
>>
>>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This is your problem. There have been a number of bug-fixes to the
>SiI drivers since 2.4.20. Try it again with a newer kernel -- such as
>2.4.24.
>
>
>
>>I've been googling for days now and could not come accross a solution,
>>on the contrary I came under the impression that the combination of
>>SiI3112 +and Seagate was doomed.
>>
>>
>
> Not so. I have a SiI3112 controller and a 120GiB Seagate drive, and
>they work very well together. I'm using 2.6.1, although 2.4.23 also
>worked well for me.
>
>[snip]
>
>
>>Isn't there a solution??
>>
>>I am willing to try patches of experimental code. At this point I am
>>looking at reinstalling everything on a PATA drive anyway, so I have
>>nothing to loose.
>>
>>
>
> Try using 2.4.24 or 2.6.1.
>
> Hugo.
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-20 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-01 5:55 SiI2112 + Seagate + nFroce2: no DMA! manu
2004-01-20 8:58 ` Hugo Mills
2003-01-01 17:06 ` manu [this message]
2004-01-24 9:27 ` Emmanuel Hislen
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