From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261909AbTKHSMu (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Nov 2003 13:12:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261916AbTKHSMu (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Nov 2003 13:12:50 -0500 Received: from wsip-68-14-236-254.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.14.236.254]:39865 "EHLO office.labsysgrp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261909AbTKHSMs (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Nov 2003 13:12:48 -0500 Message-ID: <3FAD3215.9010400@backtobasicsmgmt.com> Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 11:12:37 -0700 From: "Kevin P. Fleming" Organization: Back to Basics Network Management User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: LKML Subject: Re: libata testing on new machine with ICH5 and PDC20318 References: <3FACC17C.7070901@backtobasicsmgmt.com> <3FAD2CB6.5070508@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <3FAD2CB6.5070508@pobox.com> 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 Jeff Garzik wrote: > The ICH5 should be fine. You may need to twiddle BIOS setup options, > some users have reported that both drivers/ide and libata fail in > certain BIOS modes. "Enhanced - SATA only" is usually the preferred > mode, where feasible. I forgot to mention I will not be booting off of any of the SATA disks, so that should cover the BIOS issues by just ignoring them. > > You need to make sure you get the Promise SATA fixes I just pushed to > Linus. Presumably they will be available in the next 2.6.0-testX BK > snapshot on ftp.kernel.org, tonight or the next night. I saw that message; I won't have the hardware until late next week, so I'll watch to see what happens with the snapshot/-testX situation by then. I'll have about three weeks to use the machine for "whatever" before I have to start preparing it for its real purpose, so if there's any stress tests or anything I else I can run that would be useful let me know.