Re: sata_sil, writing bug with multiple cards?

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Jul 04 2007 - 04:52:30 EST


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
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