Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:09:45 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20030930160757.011dcc00@www.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <200309302006.h8UK6ec0025565@spider.deepcore.dk>
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Great news to hear S=F8ren. Do you know when a snapshot with the fix will be available? Since I cannot= =20 complete a buildworld using the SATA drive without the fix. Thanks for the fix. -Derek At 10:06 PM 9/30/2003 +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: >I have now found a way to reproduce the DMA problems some setups seems >to be having with the SiI3112A SATA chip. > >Now, if I use real SATA drives, (and I mean real SATA drives, the >WD Raptor fx is not a real SATA device but just a PATA device >with a build in PATA->SATA converter chip) it works just fine >no matter what I try. > >If however I use an older PATA drive and a certain PATA->SATA "dongle" >(in this case 1 out of 4 samples) I can reproduce the problem pretty >easily. > >This suggests to me that we are looking at a timing problem of sorts >the question is where. > >I'll work on the problem as time permits... > >-S=F8ren >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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