Hi, On Thursday, July 18, 2013 08:25:41 PM Andreas Mohr wrote: > Hi, > > forgot to mention that I had already added a libata.force=40c boot > after my 80c config issue discovery > which did successfully cause the "limiting to UDMA/33 due to 40c foo" dmesg > yet where there's now initial but strong confirmation via reports > that the resulting UDMA/33 limit did NOT manage to fix corruption issues, > thus it's more strongly likely that the "bound to ill-suited pata_amd driver" > (due to incorrectly configuring speeds, or due to not configuring speeds > at all due to possibly BIOS not providing emulation of PCI register accesses > to Geode bus, which would be properly supported by pata_cs5536 OTOH) > thing is the actual reason and might fix it (fingers crossed). UDMA/66 (and higher) requires 80-wire cable to work (if the vendor states that UDMA/66 is supported then UDMA/100 should also work on CS5536). UDMA/33 should work just fine with 40-wire cable. Therefore this indeed sounds more like wrong driver being selected issue than a cable problem. Best regards, -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Samsung R&D Institute Poland Samsung Electronics -- 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
