Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:35:31 -0700 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18 |
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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 >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > >
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