Re: DMA Timeouts with 3112 SATA Controller (status == 0x21)

Joshua Penix
2003-04-14T22:34:53Z

On Saturday 12 April 2003 01:06 am, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> Gurr!!!!!!!
>
> These drives were not to make it to market in the commom purchase
> marketspace!

Do you mean to say that the problem lies in the Seagate drives, not in the SiI
3112 controller and/or its driver code?

I'm seeing SATA as a common component on quite a few motherboards, and am
definitely seeing SATA drives in the retail channel. In my experience, all
of these pieces work flawlessly under Win2k and XP... would love for them to
do the same under Linux.

> This is not a fun one to fix!
>
> This is all I can say for now :-(

Why no fun? Why can't you say more? We would really appreciate more
specifics when you can. If the problem lies with Seagate, I'd be happy to
press the issue with them.

--Josh