Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flashIDE chip under 2.6.18

[Jeff V. Merkey]

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.
>
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> Len Sorensen
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