NIC and SATA doesn't work on nForce Pro board

[Chris]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:01:25AM -0400, Chris wrote:
>
>> OK, I found some more information on this.  Here is a report of the exact
>> same problem I have:
>> http://www.amdzone.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=2300
>>
>> Apparently as of kernel 2.6.8 the sata_nv driver is broken.  I don't want
>> to use the Sil controller on my board, I would rather have the nVidia
>> driver working.  Frustrating because it works in the 2.6.7 kernels!
>
> Great, that helps.  Please file a bug in Bugzilla with this information, and
> also the following from your system:
>
> Complete dmesg output
> Complete lspci output

OK, I will do that when I get a chance.

I found out even more information.  2.6.8 is when everything went to 
libata for all the SATA stuff.  I built a new 2.6.8 kernel and specified 
the _old_ SATA support and disabled libata support.  The nForce SATA did 
work with that kernel.  That is what Knoppix uses.

Also, I tried the Silicon Image driver.  It works, sorta.  It freezes the 
whole system every once in a while for 30 seconds or more (sometimes the 
system never comes back) when doing lots of file operations like copying a 
large file.  Pretty much makes it unsable as well.  This is the libata 
driver.  I have not tried the old PATA/SATA Sil driver yet.

In short, the libata stuff doesn't seem like it works very well at all (at 
least with AMD boards).

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// Chris