Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:21:48 -0600
From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: 2.6.20 SATA error
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To: Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon@widomaker.com>
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Gerhard Mack wrote:
>>> Sorry for the false alarm, 
>> There is one thing that seems odd, if you do have an nForce4 chipset, the
>> kernel should be running the SATA controller in ADMA mode in 2.6.20, but it
>> doesn't seem like it is from your dmesg output. Can you post the output of
>> "lspci -vvn"? Also what kind of motherboard is that?
>>
> Sure thing.  It's an Asus m2npv-vm.

Ah, that would be why, it's not one of the original nForce4 
(CK804/MCP04) chipsets, it's the newer nForce 430 (MCP51) chipset which 
doesn't support ADMA. NVidia said they'd be sending some patches to 
allow NCQ support on MCP51 and MCP61 chipsets back in October, but I 
haven't seen any, or information required to implement same..

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