Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 Apr 2006 18:00:47 -0400 (EDT) | From | Mark Hahn <> | Subject | Re: [RESEND][2.6.15] New ATA error messages on upgrade to 2.6.15 |
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> > (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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