Re: 2.6.20 SATA error

From: Gerhard Mack
Date: Wed Feb 28 2007 - 20:33:54 EST


On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Robert Hancock wrote:

> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:21:48 -0600
> From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@xxxxxxx>
> To: Gerhard Mack <gmack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: 2.6.20 SATA error
>
> Gerhard Mack wrote:
> > > > Sorry for the false alarm,
> > > There is one thing that seems odd, if you do have an nForce4 chipset, the
> > > kernel should be running the SATA controller in ADMA mode in 2.6.20, but
> > > it
> > > doesn't seem like it is from your dmesg output. Can you post the output of
> > > "lspci -vvn"? Also what kind of motherboard is that?
> > >
> > Sure thing. It's an Asus m2npv-vm.
>
> Ah, that would be why, it's not one of the original nForce4 (CK804/MCP04)
> chipsets, it's the newer nForce 430 (MCP51) chipset which doesn't support
> ADMA. NVidia said they'd be sending some patches to allow NCQ support on MCP51
> and MCP61 chipsets back in October, but I haven't seen any, or information
> required to implement same..

fun stuff.. I guess it's back to trying to get the onboard ethernet card
to work in debian.

Gerhard

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<>< As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.
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