Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair John Strachan <> | Subject | Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5 | Date | Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:05:33 +0000 |
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On Tuesday 16 January 2007 01:53, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Robert Hancock wrote: > > I'll try your stress test when I get a chance, but I doubt I'll run into > > the same problem and I haven't seen any similar reports. Perhaps it's > > some kind of wierd timing issue or incompatibility between the > > controller and that drive when running in ADMA mode? I seem to remember > > various reports of issues with certain Maxtor drives and some nForce > > SATA controllers under Windows at least.. > > Just to eliminate things, has disabling ADMA been attempted? > > It can be disabled using the sata_nv.adma module parameter.
Setting this option fixes the problem for me. I suggest that ADMA defaults off in 2.6.20, if there's still time to do that.
-- Cheers, Alistair.
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