From: Hugo Mills <hugo-lkml@carfax.org.uk>
To: manu <hislen@mindspring.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SiI2112 + Seagate + nFroce2: no DMA!
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:58:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040120085800.GB31330@carfax.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E1282EF.30300@mindspring.com>
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On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 09:55:59PM -0800, manu wrote:
Incidentally, did you know that the date on your computer is very,
very wrong?
> I'm about to give up on my SATA drive as I can't get it to work properly.
> So I thought I may try asking the experts before falling back to PATA.
>
> I have seen many mails reporting the same issue, some of them 6-month old:
>
> - SATA drive comes up in pio mode, not in dma
> - trying to turn on dma with hdparm is a nightmare: I/O errors, crash
> with data corruption... I tried both:
>
> hddarm -d1 /dev/hde
>
> and:
>
> hdparm -u1 -c3 -d1 -X66 /dev/hde
>
> crash in both cases :-((
>
>
> Here's my equipment:
>
>
> ABIT AN7 motherboard (nForce2 chipset, SiI3112 SATA controller)
> AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (+ 512 DDR / 400 MHz)
> SATA HD Seagate Barracuda 160 Gb
>
> The SATA HD is my only drive. The only thing connected to my IDE
> controllers is a DVD/CD combo.
>
> Running Linux Redhat 9.0
> kernel 2.4.20-28.9
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is your problem. There have been a number of bug-fixes to the
SiI drivers since 2.4.20. Try it again with a newer kernel -- such as
2.4.24.
> I've been googling for days now and could not come accross a solution,
> on the contrary I came under the impression that the combination of
> SiI3112 +and Seagate was doomed.
Not so. I have a SiI3112 controller and a 120GiB Seagate drive, and
they work very well together. I'm using 2.6.1, although 2.4.23 also
worked well for me.
[snip]
> Isn't there a solution??
>
> I am willing to try patches of experimental code. At this point I am
> looking at reinstalling everything on a PATA drive anyway, so I have
> nothing to loose.
Try using 2.4.24 or 2.6.1.
Hugo.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-01 5:55 manu
2004-01-20 8:58 ` Hugo Mills [this message]
2003-01-01 17:06 ` manu
2004-01-24 9:27 ` Emmanuel Hislen
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