Re: Serial ATA (SATA) for Linux status report

[Erik Andersen]

On Wed Jan 14, 2004 at 07:41:56PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> I'm pretty sure the "excessive interrupts" issue was successfully 
> tracked down by Jon Burgess (thanks!).  He found this post describing an 
> ICH5 hardware issue,
> http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-stable@xxxxxxxxxxx/msg58421.html
> 
> and he also submitted the attached patch.
> 
> I've been meaning to rewrite his patch to isolate it more to ata_piix, 
> but in the meantime maybe folks could test this?

Tried it on top of 2.4.25-pre4-libata1.  I set the BIOS on my
Asus P4P800 to Enhanced mode, and the kernel locked solid during
boot while trying to clean /tmp....  Setting the BIOS back to
Compatible mode allows my system to boot.

 -Erik

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