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SubjectRe: FYI: SATA on x86-64
Stefan Smietanowski wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>>
>> There appear to be a variety of platform problems that lead to trouble
>> with libata (and also with the IDE driver to some extent), with the
>> default x86-64 kernel + some buggy BIOSes + some iommu weirdness.
>>
>> Here are some boot options to mix and match:
>> nomce, iommu=off, noapic, acpi=off
>>
>> And also try using an SMP kernel (CONFIG_SMP) rather than a
>> uniprocessor one.
>
>
> You have any special place where one or several options might be useful?
>
> I stressed the promise sata on my ASUS K8V with a Maxtor disk yesterday
> and it worked just fine. Under 2.4 that is. And yes, running an x86_64
> kernel.

If you don't need any of those options, then no worries. You are fine
as-is.

Jeff



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