Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 02:01:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 02:01:19 -0400 Received: from astcc-166.astound.net ([24.219.123.215]:7684 "EHLO master.linux-ide.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 02:01:04 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 23:02:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Andre Hedrick To: Daniela Engert cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , dan Subject: Re: Repeatable File Corruption (ECS K7S5A w/SIS735) In-Reply-To: <20011026045736.77F08106D0@mail.medav.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Daniela, I just love it when you bust my crops, dear ;-) How about some init code to resolve the problem? Cheers, On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Daniela Engert wrote: > On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 22:21:47 -0400 (EDT), dan wrote: > > > It is repeatable and verified on other boards of the same model. This > >just started happening when I upgraded the system. The following is a > >link to the ECS K7S5A board in question, the SIS735 chipset, and a > > > hda: ST36421A, ATA DISK drive > > hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM10.2, ATA DISK drive > > hdc: IC35L060AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive > > >The problem only went away when I replaced the motherboard. I also > >haven't had any file corruption issues running Windows2000 on the same > >hardware with the same files. I moved all of the hardware in the original > >system to a new motherboard (ASUS A7A266) and the problem went away. > > >I have CC'd the IDE chipset maintainer because I can only assume it might > >be related. > > It very likely is. The current Linux SiS IDE driver doesn't initialize > the the EIDE controller in the SiS735 (and most likely all other > ATA/100 capable members, too) correctly. > > The SiS735 IDE cycle timing registers have a layout that is different > from the older predecessors! > > >From my experiences, drivers taking this not into account *do* actually > work most of the time even if the timing of the layer 0 communication > protocol is wrong, but fail mysteriously sometimes. Andre needs to > update the SiS5513 code. > > Ciao, > Dani > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Daniela Engert, systems engineer at MEDAV GmbH > Gr?fenberger Str. 34, 91080 Uttenreuth, Germany > Phone ++49-9131-583-348, Fax ++49-9131-583-11 > > Andre Hedrick CTO ASL, Inc. Linux ATA Development ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASL, Inc. Tel: (510) 857-0055 x103 38875 Cherry Street Fax: (510) 857-0010 Newark, CA 94560 Web: www.aslab.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/