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    SubjectRe: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18
    Lennart Sorensen wrote:

    >On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 01:46:42PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
    >
    >
    >>I just finished pulling out a melted IDE flash drive out of a Shuttle
    >>motherboard with the intel 945 chipset which claims to support
    >>SATA and IDE drives concurrently under Linux 2.6.18.
    >>
    >>The chip worked for about 30 seconds before liquifying in the chassis.
    >>I note that the 945 chipset in the shuttle PC had some serious
    >>issues recognizing 2 x SATA devices and a IDE device concurrently. Are
    >>there known problems with the Linux drivers
    >>with these newer chipsets.
    >>
    >>
    >
    >Had the drive ever been used in any other machine?
    >

    Yes, on a SuperMicro X6DHE-G2 Xeon motherboard -- worked fine.

    >Had any ide device
    >ever been used in this machine before?
    >
    Yes. external cabled CDROM Drive seems to work.

    Jeff

    >It really sounds like a hardware
    >problem, since I can't think of anything software could do to make that
    >kind of current go through the flash drive.
    >
    >I remember seeing the controller chip on a 730MB quantum scsi drive
    >start to glow red many years ago, just before the drive stopped
    >responding to the system (and I turned off the power). Hardware does
    >fail. It almost never has anything to do with software.
    >
    >--
    >Len Sorensen
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