Re: FYI: SATA on x86-64

[Stefan Smietanowski]

Jeff Garzik wrote:

> There appear to be a variety of platform problems that lead to trouble 
> with libata (and also with the IDE driver to some extent), with the 
> default x86-64 kernel + some buggy BIOSes + some iommu weirdness.
>
> Here are some boot options to mix and match:
>     nomce, iommu=off, noapic, acpi=off
>
> And also try using an SMP kernel (CONFIG_SMP) rather than a uniprocessor 
> one.

You have any special place where one or several options might be useful?

I stressed the promise sata on my ASUS K8V with a Maxtor disk yesterday
and it worked just fine. Under 2.4 that is. And yes, running an x86_64
kernel.

// Stefan
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/