Recent ATA drivers giving problems with SATA

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 13:28, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > atapci1: <SiI 3112 SATA150 controller> port
> > 0x14b0-0x14bf,0x14c0-0x14c3,0x14c8-0x14cf,0x14c4-0x14c7,0x14d0-0x14d7
> > mem 0xe800a000-0xe800a1ff irq 9 at device 16.0 on pci0
> > GEOM: create disk ad4 dp=0xc5246460
> > ad4: 78167MB <Maxtor 6Y080M0> [158816/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA133
> > 
> > Nothing else was changed in the machine except the specific version of
> > -CURRENT since the time things worked and now.  In addition to replacing
> > the drive, I have replaced the SATA cable as well.  My plan is to revert
> > the ATA drivers to two weeks ago, and see if the problem persists. 
> > Failing that, I will test to see if this is a cooling problem.  Failing
> > that, I will replace the SATA controller.  However, I wanted to know if
> > I'm barking up the wrong tree, and perhaps this is a software issue. 
> 
> There are some early issues of the SiI3112 chips that has problems that
> can cause datacorruption etc etc..
> You can try the following patch (which btw re@ has for approval), 
> otherwise I'd try another controller as there seem to be no end of the
> troubles with the Sii 3112 chips (brings back to mind the horror times
> from when they where called CMD and did the CMD640 disaster)...

On the "other controller" front, what about the Adaptec 1205SA host
controller?

Joe

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