From: Witold Krecicki <adasi@kernel.pl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SII SATA request size limit
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 12:56:06 +0200
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Dnia pi? 12. wrze?nia 2003 22:55, Marcelo Penna Guerra napisa?:
> Witold Krecicki escreveu:
> > I've lost some of mails about siimage on LKML, but Im' getting more and
> > more confused about 'hangs' probably caused by siimage driver. I was
> > using 15 rqsize, now 128 - doesn't matter. It happens in random moments -
> > sometimes
>
> at
>
> > boot time when drive is fscked, sometimes when I'm trying to copy large
> > amount of data and sometimes without any particular reason after several
> > hours. I've updated MB (a7n8x deluxe rev 2.0) BIOS but controller (which
> > is on-board) bios seems to be untouched (4.1.25 or so ). Is there any
>
> controller
>
> > BIOS update which I could miss? what can be other reason
>
> Do you have APIC enabled? If you enable both ACPI and APIC you'll have
> problems with DMA, using the onboard nForce2 IDE or the SATA chip. I filled
> a bug report and will add some debug info as soon as I recompile my kernel
> with APIC and debug support again.
After disabling APIC in kernel/BIOS it still hanged, but when I've disabled 
ACPI:
 12:55pm  up 13:06,  4 users,  load average: 0.09, 0.03, 0.01
Longest uptime I've ever seen on this HW @ Linux
-- 
Witold Kr?cicki (adasi) adasi [at] culm.net
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