> > AHCI is a pretty well tested driver, but 99%+ of all testers still tend to > > have less than 4GB of memory. So I do *not* believe that the highmem bits > > are all that well tested at all.
Lab tested well and we pretty rapidly found the problems with non Intel AHCI that had 4GB cases. > dmesg, see bellow. But everything seems to work fine with it. No ext3 > issues. On the other hand, the I/O is very low (4.2 MB/s) in comparison > to ahci. Maybe this can give us a hint for problems in ahci and 64-bit dma. 4.2MB/sec is abnormally low. > scsi0 : ata_piix > scsi1 : ata_piix > ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x0000000000011cc0 ctl 0x0000000000011cb6 > bmdma 0x0000000000011c60 irq 22 > ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x0000000000011cb8 ctl 0x0000000000011cb2 > bmdma 0x0000000000011c68 irq 22 No devices. The messages here don't make any sense at all. > Adding 2000084k swap on /dev/hdd2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2000084k > ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready And in fact you are using /dev/hda so you are not using the ata_piix driver at all but something like the IDE legacy mode PIO driver - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html