From: "Daniela Engert" <dani@ngrt.de>
To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"dan" <lung@theuw.net>
Cc: "Andre Hedrick" <andre@linux-ide.org>
Subject: Re: Repeatable File Corruption (ECS K7S5A w/SIS735)
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 07:53:50 +0200 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011026045736.77F08106D0@mail.medav.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110252048260.1388-100000@narboza.theuw.net>
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 22:21:47 -0400 (EDT), dan wrote:
> It is repeatable and verified on other boards of the same model. This
>just started happening when I upgraded the system. The following is a
>link to the ECS K7S5A board in question, the SIS735 chipset, and a
> hda: ST36421A, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM10.2, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: IC35L060AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive
>The problem only went away when I replaced the motherboard. I also
>haven't had any file corruption issues running Windows2000 on the same
>hardware with the same files. I moved all of the hardware in the original
>system to a new motherboard (ASUS A7A266) and the problem went away.
>I have CC'd the IDE chipset maintainer because I can only assume it might
>be related.
It very likely is. The current Linux SiS IDE driver doesn't initialize
the the EIDE controller in the SiS735 (and most likely all other
ATA/100 capable members, too) correctly.
The SiS735 IDE cycle timing registers have a layout that is different
from the older predecessors!
>From my experiences, drivers taking this not into account *do* actually
work most of the time even if the timing of the layer 0 communication
protocol is wrong, but fail mysteriously sometimes. Andre needs to
update the SiS5513 code.
Ciao,
Dani
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Daniela Engert, systems engineer at MEDAV GmbH
Gräfenberger Str. 34, 91080 Uttenreuth, Germany
Phone ++49-9131-583-348, Fax ++49-9131-583-11
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-26 5:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-26 2:21 dan
2001-10-26 2:26 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-10-26 3:56 ` lung
2001-10-26 5:53 ` Daniela Engert [this message]
2001-10-26 6:02 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-10-26 6:08 ` lung
2001-10-26 6:35 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-10-26 6:41 ` lung
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