Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 14:03:21 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Guido Villa <piribillo@yahoo.it>
Cc: Manuel Lauss <mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Error with Sil3112A SATA controller and Maxtor 300GB HDD
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On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 07:55:06PM +0100, Guido Villa wrote:
> Hi Manuel, 
> 
> Manuel Lauss writes: 
> 
> >I happen to have a SiI 3112A controller and a Maxtor 6B300S0 attached to
> >it, formatted with ext2. Never had any problems. I just copied
> >200GB of data to it, worked flawlessly. (Vanilla 2.6.11)
> >Maybe its the Motherboard?
> 
> so it must be the hardware.
> Thank you very much for your reply, I will check more thoroughly disk, 
> controller and mainboard. 
> 
> I am really sorry for having posted such a problem on this ml, but I was 
> quite sure it was a software problem. 

Make sure to upgrade your BIOS, too.

	Jeff


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