From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263030AbUCSV7F (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:59:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263012AbUCSV7E (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:59:04 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:51162 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262490AbUCSV67 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:58:59 -0500 Message-ID: <405B6D15.9030600@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:58:45 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefan Smietanowski CC: Linux Kernel , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: FYI: SATA on x86-64 References: <405B6B6B.70200@pobox.com> <405B6C6B.4050202@stesmi.com> In-Reply-To: <405B6C6B.4050202@stesmi.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 Stefan Smietanowski wrote: > 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. If you don't need any of those options, then no worries. You are fine as-is. Jeff