Re: [RESEND][2.6.15] New ATA error messages on upgrade to 2.6.15

[Mark Hahn]

> > (2)  It's extremely unlikely that the card itself is faulty; it  
> > exhibits identical symptoms on both drives and has ever since I  
> > originally purchased the card and installed 2.4.X on the system.
> 
> If it has always shown those symptoms then I'd say its quite likely the
> card if the crystals/PLLs on it are out. It looks like the timing is
> wrong, which means either the input clocks (eg PCI clock) are wrong (eg
> 37.5Mhz not 33 due to BIOS overclock settings or just plain out), the
> card has a dodgy crystal/PLL or the kernel set it up wrong.

I mentioned this to Kyle early on, in connection with the idebus=
kernel parameter.  I'm not sure why he wants to believe there's a
software bug causing his problems.

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