> Does the problem occur on 2.6.18 but not on earlier version? If it > doesn't happen on 2.6.17, we can rule out h/w problem. Difficult to say... this is a fresh install of FC6 and it's a production box (heh, it handles my email !) so we can't easily test plenty different kernels on it unfortunately... If 2.6.17 can be booted and works fine on FC6, might be worth giving it a go but I wouldnt' expect too many tests of that sort. > * If 2.6.17 shows the same problem : could be a faulty drive or > problem in the controller. NV SATA controllers supply two > interfaces - legacy TF/BMDMA and ADMA. The former tends to react > badly when error condition occurs. Driver for ADMA interface is > under development. It could be that the controller cannot cope with > transient transmission errors. If this is the case, ADMA driver > should be able to fix it. Do we have any contact at nVidia that could rule on that issue ? The drives both appear to work fine on the SIL controller... > * If 2.6.17 doesn't show the same problem : My first suspicion is > weird IRQ problem. Play with the usual IRQ options - acpi, noacpi, > etc... and see if anything changes. Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
