Andi Kleen wrote: > On Wednesday 04 July 2007 10:17:34 7091@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >>> Most likely it is some sort of hardware bug that we might >>> not be able to do much about. Have you tried contacting SIL or VIA? >> No, I haven't. Like I mentioned above, the OpenBSD drivers seemed to work, >> or at least did with similar tests. I would need to run the more extensive >> checks to be positive, but those take a lot of time, obviously. And >> downtime for the box, a lot of which isn't really manageable, at the moment. > > Perhaps the OpenBSD drivers program the SIL chip in a different way > that avoids this problem. > >>> e.g. if you have some other system with a different chipset it might >>> be useful to test the SIL controllers in those. >> The previous motherboard was an AMD 760 chipset, and it had the same >> problem. > > Ok this means it's likely a SIL issue, not a chipset issue. Hmmmm... okay. I'll take look at the openBSD driver. I still have no idea what it can be tho. Maybe, FIFO setup? Thanks. -- tejun - 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
