Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:58:00 +0000 | From | Hugo Mills <> | Subject | Re: SiI2112 + Seagate + nFroce2: no DMA! |
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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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