Messages in this thread | | | From | "Daniela Engert" <> | Date | Fri, 26 Oct 2001 07:53:50 +0200 (CDT) | Subject | Re: Repeatable File Corruption (ECS K7S5A w/SIS735) |
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On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 22:21:47 -0400 (EDT), dan wrote:
> It is repeatable and verified on other boards of the same model. This >just started happening when I upgraded the system. The following is a >link to the ECS K7S5A board in question, the SIS735 chipset, and a
> hda: ST36421A, ATA DISK drive > hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM10.2, ATA DISK drive > hdc: IC35L060AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive
>The problem only went away when I replaced the motherboard. I also >haven't had any file corruption issues running Windows2000 on the same >hardware with the same files. I moved all of the hardware in the original >system to a new motherboard (ASUS A7A266) and the problem went away.
>I have CC'd the IDE chipset maintainer because I can only assume it might >be related.
It very likely is. The current Linux SiS IDE driver doesn't initialize the the EIDE controller in the SiS735 (and most likely all other ATA/100 capable members, too) correctly.
The SiS735 IDE cycle timing registers have a layout that is different from the older predecessors!
>From my experiences, drivers taking this not into account *do* actually work most of the time even if the timing of the layer 0 communication protocol is wrong, but fail mysteriously sometimes. Andre needs to update the SiS5513 code.
Ciao, Dani
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Daniela Engert, systems engineer at MEDAV GmbH Gräfenberger Str. 34, 91080 Uttenreuth, Germany Phone ++49-9131-583-348, Fax ++49-9131-583-11
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