From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265581AbUATRHd (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:07:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265602AbUATRHd (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:07:33 -0500 Received: from barry.mail.mindspring.net ([207.69.200.25]:19226 "EHLO barry.mail.mindspring.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265581AbUATRH3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:07:29 -0500 Message-ID: <3E132023.10206@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 09:06:43 -0800 From: manu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hugo Mills CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SiI2112 + Seagate + nFroce2: no DMA! References: <3E1282EF.30300@mindspring.com> <20040120085800.GB31330@carfax.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040120085800.GB31330@carfax.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. > > >