Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

Robert Hancock
2007-09-14T00:38:19Z

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I now tested with the adma=0 option, but if anything I got a crash
>> quicker than before. Same error message started coming in, but this
>> time the system hung before I was able to capture the log as well (but
>> I saw the error, and it was the same as before, except that this time
>> it was the ata3-channel that first started acting up..) - To remind
>> you all what this is about, I have reattached the log that I
>> originally captured...
>
> Sounds like a hardware problem, since disabling ADMA is generally the
> cure-all we use -- it appears to stress the hardware less.

If this is an MCP51 chipset, adma=0 will make no difference since that
chipset does not support ADMA in the first place.

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