From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262773AbUCSV5F (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:57:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262490AbUCSV5F (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:57:05 -0500 Received: from 1-2-2-1a.has.sth.bostream.se ([82.182.130.86]:43185 "EHLO K-7.stesmi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262244AbUCSV5B (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:57:01 -0500 Message-ID: <405B6C6B.4050202@stesmi.com> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 22:55:55 +0100 From: Stefan Smietanowski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040219 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: Linux Kernel , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: FYI: SATA on x86-64 References: <405B6B6B.70200@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <405B6B6B.70200@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: > > There appear to be a variety of platform problems that lead to trouble > with libata (and also with the IDE driver to some extent), with the > default x86-64 kernel + some buggy BIOSes + some iommu weirdness. > > Here are some boot options to mix and match: > nomce, iommu=off, noapic, acpi=off > > And also try using an SMP kernel (CONFIG_SMP) rather than a uniprocessor > one. You have any special place where one or several options might be useful? I stressed the promise sata on my ASUS K8V with a Maxtor disk yesterday and it worked just fine. Under 2.4 that is. And yes, running an x86_64 kernel. // Stefan