Hello, guys.
As I also have two seagate drives and siimage controller, I spent
some time tinkering with those, and the benchmark result looks okay.
I'll tidy up the patch and post it tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
The patch makes sata_sil driver report normal max_sectors and loops
over wr
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I get DMA errors after resuming from suspend (S3).
I had switched DMA off before suspending.
Kernel: 2.6.10 (ubuntu, 2.6.10-27), same with 2.6.8.1. Boot Parameters:
ro nobiospnp noapic pci=usepirqmask; same problem without those.
Hardware: Asus K8V SE Deluxe, Via K8T800 Chipset, via82cxxx loaded
Thank you much for breaking this down so well.
Hello, Kanniball.
I've digged lkml previously and what I've found out are
* It's basically because of faulty SATA implementation of the
affected seagate hard drives combined with standard-compliant but
peculiar behavior of silicon image controller
Jeff:
Is your contribution to 2.6.11 based on Georg's patch? If so, I think
there needs to be a warning in the promise_sata kernel config help at
the very least.
Have you considered porting the Promise driver to 2.6? I have been
using that driver with 2.4.28 with no problems. Plus, it looks like
Thanks for your replay.
I've sent one email to my board manufacter, because my sata controller is part
of my MB, and in the SI site they say that don't provide support for that
class of products.
Because I already know their answer (oh linux... we don't provide support for
this, please ask your
Kanniball wrote:
Well let's see if we can get the tecnical info...
This is a very annoying problem... so please "devs" give us the info we need,
and we'll try to do your best
Hello, Kanniball.
I've digged lkml previously and what I've found out are
* It's basically because of faulty SATA implem
