Re: SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status
From: Derek Ragona (derek_at_computinginnovations.com)
Date: 09/30/03
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:09:45 -0500 To: Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>, current@freebsd.org
Great news to hear Søren.
Do you know when a snapshot with the fix will be available? Since I cannot
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...
>
>-Søren
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