RE: SII SATA request size limit

[Allen Martin]

> > much as soon as anything touches the SCSI bus on my aic7xxx card.
> > Disabling DMA on the SiI IDE channel seems to work around it, at the
> > cost of a lot of performance... (this is on stock 2.4.22, BTW)
> No, only on-board nForce2 IDE controller. Disabling ACPI 
> helped. - now it's 
> stable

There are ACPI issues with nForce boards, you will see PCI interrupts get
programmed to edge triggered mode in /proc/interrupts when APIC is enabled.
The easiest workaround is to disable ACPI like you have done.

-Allen
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