Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 01 Jan 2003 09:06:43 -0800 | From | manu <> | Subject | Re: SiI2112 + Seagate + nFroce2: no DMA! |
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Wonderful, so there is hope!
Yep my date was wrong because I was just coming back from flashing the BIOS with a new version and clearing CMOS, which did not change a darn thing and pushed me to send this mail :-)
RedHat seems to be releasing relatively old kernel so (what I have is the latest from them), must say I never paid attention to it, now I will.
Thanks so much,
Emmanuel.
Hugo Mills wrote:
>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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