Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

[Robert Hancock]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I now tested with the adma=0 option, but if anything I got a crash 
> > quicker than before. Same error message started coming in, but this 
> > time the system hung before I was able to capture the log as well (but 
> > I saw the error, and it was the same as before, except that this time 
> > it was the ata3-channel that first started acting up..) - To remind 
> > you all what this is about, I have reattached the log that I 
> > originally captured...
>
> Sounds like a hardware problem, since disabling ADMA is generally the 
> cure-all we use -- it appears to stress the hardware less.

If this is an MCP51 chipset, adma=0 will make no difference since that 
chipset does not support ADMA in the first place.

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