Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:58:45 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: FYI: SATA on x86-64 |
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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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