"Joe MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There was one incident of a remedy:
> > The user exchanged the SATA controller which connected
> > the drive with the computer.
>
>
> I'm not completely opposed to that, but I've been considering that a
> non-solution so far since it appears that the controller isn't completely
> defective, just not completely functional in Linux.
>
> The controller I'm using is the on-board one with my motherboard, an older
> DFI K8M800, which makes it difficult to find out exactly what hardware the
> put on the board unless you know what you're looking for, and when it comes
> to SATA stuff, I don't, really. lspci reports it as:
>
> 00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID
> Controller (rev 80)
> Subsystem: DFI Inc Unknown device 1004
> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
As I know that there have been problems with this controller on Solaris until
very recently, did you try to switch the BIOS to run this controller in PATA
compat mode?
Jörg
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