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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:00:23 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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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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Guido Villa wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 
> Hi Manuel,
> I was checking my kernel configuration, and some doubts arised in my 
> mind. Would you please check if my parameters are the same as yours?
> set:
> CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC

Unless you are loading an IDE driver at 0x1f0, 0x170 (legacy IDE), don't 
use the IDE generic driver.


> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI
> CONFIG_SCSI
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD
> CONFIG_SCSI_SATA
> CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL
> unset:
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_GENERIC
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIIMAGE (I'm unsure on this)

Otherwise, looks OK to me.

	Jeff


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