Re: SATA drive problems in LENNY...
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On 07/15/08 16:15, Mark Allums wrote:
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> Silicon Image controllers require a driver, so the obvious question is,
> are the drivers in the kernel or a module? [Thinking aloud:] It seems
> to be there, from the above, but SATA requires SCSI generic support and
> all that. And, lo, you did cat /proc/scsi/scsi.
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> Something's flaky.
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> Have you considered a bad hard disk? It is SATA, but the system reduces
> the DMA to DMA66. Tried a new cable? Power supply adequate?
Or the SATA cable was jiggled loose?
> How recent is the driver? Would a more recent one help?
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> [Shot in the dark:] How is your APIC/LAPIC quality? Quite a few older
> machines have buggy BIOSes, and need a boot parameter such as noapic.
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