Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2004-09-24 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Bruce Campbell wrote: I've manually set: atacontrol mode 0 UDMA33 UDMA33 and the problem has not recurred. That sort of hints that there's some issue with the cabling, as UDMA33 is the highest you can go on a 40wire IDE cable. Going beyond requires an 80wire cable (

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-10 Thread Francesco Casadei
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 03:02:46PM +0100, Francesco Casadei wrote: [snip] Yesterday I checked the drive ad6 with the Drive Fitness Test program from IBM. Both quick and advanced test returned that the drive is ok. I then ran the test against ad0 (the backup drive): the quick test showed that

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-06 Thread Guy Dawson
This article from The Register may be of interest: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/18267.html It talks about a bug in the VIA 686B Southbridge chipset that can cause data corruption when processing large amounts of data. Guy --

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-05 Thread Francesco Casadei
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 01:42:03PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: [snip] I don't have it enabled: hw.ata.tags: 0 I've manually set: atacontrol mode 0 UDMA33 UDMA33 and the problem has not recurred. -- Bruce Campbell Engineering Computing CPH-2374B University of Waterloo

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-05 Thread Bruce Campbell
Quoting Bruce Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Matthew Emmerton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [ cc'ing Soren since he's the ATA guru ] Dec 30 23:27:00 ecserv13 /kernel: ad0: trying fallback to PIO mode Dec 30 23:27:00 ecserv13 /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done The test

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-05 Thread Adam Maas
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 10:01 PM Subject: Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems Quoting Bruce Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Matthew Emmerton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [ cc'ing Soren since he's the ATA guru ] Dec

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-02 Thread Francesco Casadei
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 03:57:16PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: I am seeing a problem with ata disks on 4 new systems, which I believe is either a bug in the ata driver, or a problem with the onboard IDE controller, or something else. Systems are as follows: Motherboard: ASUS A7M266-D

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-02 Thread Bruce Campbell
Quoting Francesco Casadei [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 03:57:16PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: I am seeing a problem with ata disks on 4 new systems, which I believe is either a bug in the ata driver, or a problem with the onboard IDE controller, or something else. Systems

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-02 Thread Francesco Casadei
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 01:42:03PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: [snip] I don't have it enabled: hw.ata.tags: 0 I've manually set: atacontrol mode 0 UDMA33 UDMA33 and the problem has not recurred. -- Bruce Campbell Engineering Computing CPH-2374B University of Waterloo

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2002-12-31 Thread Matthew Emmerton
[ cc'ing Soren since he's the ATA guru ] I am seeing a problem with ata disks on 4 new systems, which I believe is either a bug in the ata driver, or a problem with the onboard IDE controller, or something else. Systems are as follows: Motherboard: ASUS A7M266-D CPUs : 2 x 2000+ AMD

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2002-12-31 Thread Bruce Campbell
Quoting Matthew Emmerton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [ cc'ing Soren since he's the ATA guru ] Dec 30 23:27:00 ecserv13 /kernel: ad0: trying fallback to PIO mode Dec 30 23:27:00 ecserv13 /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done The test continues to run with the ata controller in PIO mode, with