About amd64 dualcore problems with two SATA disks and nforce4

[Søren Schmidt]

Daniel Valencia wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I started a short thread a few weeks ago, pointing out a problem with my dualcore athlon64, when detecting the second SATA disk (/dev/ad6)... my chipset is an nForce4...  The problem was narrowed down to a few commits performed at a particular date and time.  My questions are: is it safe to update my kernel now? have those problems been fixed? is there something I can do to help (like testing or so)?
>   
For whatever its worth my NF4 board finds all 4 SATA disks perfectly 
both in i386 and amd64 mode:

atapci0: <nVidia nForce CK804 UDMA133 controller> port 
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xe000-0xe00f at device 6.0 on pci0
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
atapci1: <nVidia nForce CK804 SATA300 controller> port 
0x9f0-0x9f7,0xbf0-0xbf3,0x970-0x977,0xb70-0xb73,0xcc00-0xcc0f mem 
0xfe02b000-0xfe02bfff irq 21 at device 7.0 on pci0
ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1
atapci2: <nVidia nForce CK804 SATA300 controller> port 
0x9e0-0x9e7,0xbe0-0xbe3,0x960-0x967,0xb60-0xb63,0xb800-0xb80f mem 
0xfe02a000-0xfe02afff irq 22 at device 8.0 on pci0
ata4: <ATA channel 0> on atapci2
ata5: <ATA channel 1> on atapci2
ad0: 38166MB <Seagate ST340017A 3.33> at ata0-master UDMA100
ad1: 78533MB <HDS728080PLA380 PF2OA60A> at ata2-master SATA300
ad2: 78533MB <HDS728080PLA380 PF2OA60A> at ata3-master SATA300
ad3: 70911MB <WDC WD740GD-00FLA0 21.08U21> at ata4-master SATA150
ad4: 70911MB <WDC WD740GD-00FLA0 21.08U21> at ata5-master SATA150
atausb0: <JMicron JM20338 SATA, USB Combo, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.00, 
addr 2> on uhub1
atausb0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
ata6: <USB lun 0> on atausb0
acd0: CDRW <CRD-BP1400P/5.29> at ata6-master USB2
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a

-Søren