From: Prakash Punnoor <prakash@punnoor.de>
To: Jon Ivar Rykkelid <jonry@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:29:07 +0200
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On the day of Thursday 13 September 2007 Jon Ivar Rykkelid hast written:
> Resending, as my first attempts contained HTML and was blocked...
>
> Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote:
> >> Thanks for the suggestion, but sata_nv is not built modular in my
> >> current kernel, so "no can do" at the moment
> >> (However, if some expert REALLY thinks this will fix things, I will
> >> CERTAINLY recompile and give it a go)
> >
> > Passing "sata_nv.adma=3D0" as kernel boot parameter will do the trick.
>
> Ahh, silly me... Of course!
> Ooops, I just got back, and verified: I actually have sata_nv running as
> a module after all on this server... My bad.
> I fixed /etc/modprobe.conf to include the following two lines:
> "
> alias scsi_hostadapter sata_nv
> options sata_nv adma=3D0
> ...
> "

I don't think it will matter, as adma doesn't affect MCP51, but only nforce=
4.=20
So I'd look for other trouble makers.
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