Re: Serial ATA (SATA) for Linux status report

From: Erik Andersen
Date: Wed Jan 14 2004 - 21:42:04 EST


On Wed Jan 14, 2004 at 07:41:56PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> I'm pretty sure the "excessive interrupts" issue was successfully
> tracked down by Jon Burgess (thanks!). He found this post describing an
> ICH5 hardware issue,
> http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-stable@xxxxxxxxxxx/msg58421.html
>
> and he also submitted the attached patch.
>
> I've been meaning to rewrite his patch to isolate it more to ata_piix,
> but in the meantime maybe folks could test this?

Tried it on top of 2.4.25-pre4-libata1. I set the BIOS on my
Asus P4P800 to Enhanced mode, and the kernel locked solid during
boot while trying to clean /tmp.... Setting the BIOS back to
Compatible mode allows my system to boot.

-Erik

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