From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750905AbVHMO7e (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:59:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751330AbVHMO7e (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:59:34 -0400 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.204]:32369 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750905AbVHMO7d (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:59:33 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=b3AySSEa9OsXw3lu8BhlZPPXFeb3KAXZ+bjCGKXKUhMYP6AUCVmxbry9XWkLGRGDWwnqUZzflLDZAwf2NG8ylM/gbE+f8KChRaQURoH50uC7ATMgUfWl+/ZLofwIxANNbwW0uV801b7b48xBsbZyS4Fl2g+qTAZ0qrzDh0aQ6D0= Message-ID: <42FE0ACE.6010506@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 23:59:26 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050402) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Boot CC: Jeff Garzik , Linux-ide , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SiI 3112A + Seagate HDs = still no go? References: <12872CA9-F089-4955-8751-8CC4E7B2140A@bootc.net> <42FC166A.3020505@gmail.com> <0FDE8D5B-CFF2-44F9-8C98-9C5EC5CDAE92@bootc.net> <42FC87ED.6030201@gmail.com> <22B1D7C7-7BC8-449C-914C-FCE5226BCAF2@bootc.net> <655E2636-B4D4-42EC-B10C-C8B8EFA09E33@bootc.net> <42FCAD4D.7080707@gmail.com> <74C9A166-2FDC-45F8-BEB1-A574FD9602D4@bootc.net> <42FD493D.8020506@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chris Boot wrote: > Some interesting developments! > > I installed a fresh copy of Windows, and all the VIA and nVidia and so > on drivers. At some point during all this (a period of relatively heavy > disk IO), the computer seemed to crash and I rebooted it. It then > worked fine for a while, but during my perfmon testing it seemed to do > the same thing. This time I left it for a while and it did eventually > wake up again, so I'm guessing the controller is a bit fubared. Perfmon > did indeed show several dips down to or very close to 0 during the > write operation, with peaks up to 48 MB/sec, which is pretty > respectable. So, time to replace the brand-new controller I guess. > > Now, do you think this is just my one particular controller card and a > simple return would fix the problem, or is it more likely a problem > with the whole range? It's an Innovision EIO SATA controller: http:// > www.ivmm.com/eio/products/index.htm > > Would it be a safer bet to go for the Adaptec controller of the same > variety? How reliable are they? I frankly don't know. Maybe it's just one faulty controller, connector or whatever. Maybe the card manufacturer screwed up somewhere. I mean, the only course I took in electronics is introductory digital circuits which used 74xx chips and push triggered clock on a breadboard. What would I know about gigahertz signaling error. :-p Though, one thing I can say is majority of 311x controllers don't seem to suffer from this problem. So, take your pick. -- tejun