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
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