Re: FYI: SATA on x86-64

[Jeff Garzik]

Stefan Smietanowski wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > There appear to be a variety of platform problems that lead to trouble 
> > with libata (and also with the IDE driver to some extent), with the 
> > default x86-64 kernel + some buggy BIOSes + some iommu weirdness.
> >
> > Here are some boot options to mix and match:
> >     nomce, iommu=off, noapic, acpi=off
> >
> > And also try using an SMP kernel (CONFIG_SMP) rather than a 
> > uniprocessor one.
>
>
> You have any special place where one or several options might be useful?
>
> I stressed the promise sata on my ASUS K8V with a Maxtor disk yesterday
> and it worked just fine. Under 2.4 that is. And yes, running an x86_64
> kernel.

If you don't need any of those options, then no worries.  You are fine 
as-is.

	Jeff



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