On Tuesday 16 January 2007 01:53, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Robert Hancock wrote: > > I'll try your stress test when I get a chance, but I doubt I'll run into > > the same problem and I haven't seen any similar reports. Perhaps it's > > some kind of wierd timing issue or incompatibility between the > > controller and that drive when running in ADMA mode? I seem to remember > > various reports of issues with certain Maxtor drives and some nForce > > SATA controllers under Windows at least.. > > Just to eliminate things, has disabling ADMA been attempted? > > It can be disabled using the sata_nv.adma module parameter.
Setting this option fixes the problem for me. I suggest that ADMA defaults off in 2.6.20, if there's still time to do that. -- Cheers, Alistair. Final year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
