Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932560AbXAJAAe (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 19:00:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932565AbXAJAAe (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 19:00:34 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc14.comcast.net ([216.148.227.154]:51532 "EHLO rwcrmhc14.comcast.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932501AbXAJAAd (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 19:00:33 -0500 Message-ID: <45A426C3.8070208@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:35:31 -0700 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050921 Red Hat/1.7.12-1.4.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lennart Sorensen CC: Linux kernel Subject: Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18 References: <45A3FF32.1030905@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20070109225940.GG17269@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20070109225940.GG17269@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1774 Lines: 54 Lennart Sorensen wrote: >On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 01:46:42PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > >>I just finished pulling out a melted IDE flash drive out of a Shuttle >>motherboard with the intel 945 chipset which claims to support >>SATA and IDE drives concurrently under Linux 2.6.18. >> >>The chip worked for about 30 seconds before liquifying in the chassis. >>I note that the 945 chipset in the shuttle PC had some serious >>issues recognizing 2 x SATA devices and a IDE device concurrently. Are >>there known problems with the Linux drivers >>with these newer chipsets. >> >> > >Had the drive ever been used in any other machine? > Yes, on a SuperMicro X6DHE-G2 Xeon motherboard -- worked fine. >Had any ide device >ever been used in this machine before? > Yes. external cabled CDROM Drive seems to work. Jeff >It really sounds like a hardware >problem, since I can't think of anything software could do to make that >kind of current go through the flash drive. > >I remember seeing the controller chip on a 730MB quantum scsi drive >start to glow red many years ago, just before the drive stopped >responding to the system (and I turned off the power). Hardware does >fail. It almost never has anything to do with software. > >-- >Len Sorensen >- >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/ > > > - 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/