* FYI: SATA on x86-64
@ 2004-03-19 21:51 Jeff Garzik
2004-03-19 21:55 ` Stefan Smietanowski
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From: Jeff Garzik @ 2004-03-19 21:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux Kernel, linux-ide
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.
Jeff
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* Re: FYI: SATA on x86-64
2004-03-19 21:51 FYI: SATA on x86-64 Jeff Garzik
@ 2004-03-19 21:55 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-19 21:58 ` Jeff Garzik
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From: Stefan Smietanowski @ 2004-03-19 21:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jeff Garzik; +Cc: Linux Kernel, linux-ide
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
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* Re: FYI: SATA on x86-64
2004-03-19 21:55 ` Stefan Smietanowski
@ 2004-03-19 21:58 ` Jeff Garzik
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From: Jeff Garzik @ 2004-03-19 21:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stefan Smietanowski; +Cc: Linux Kernel, linux-ide
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
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