Re: Serverworks ATA controller & data corruption

2002-02-20 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Terry Lambert wrote: > Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Terry Lambert writes: > > > > So.. Is PIO safe? Is there any sort of CRC being done on PIO data? > > > > > > He just said: if your chipset is programmed correctly > > > by the BIOS, then there will not be a problem, but > > > apparen

Re: Serverworks ATA controller & data corruption

2002-02-20 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Terry Lambert writes: > Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Terry Lambert writes: > > > > So.. Is PIO safe? Is there any sort of CRC being done on PIO data? > > > > > > He just said: if your chipset is programmed correctly > > > by the BIOS, then there will not be a problem, but > > > apparen

Re: Serverworks ATA controller & data corruption

2002-02-20 Thread Julian Elischer
basically yes. there is a CRC on the disk block right? On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Terry Lambert writes: > > > So.. Is PIO safe? Is there any sort of CRC being done on PIO data? > > > > He just said: if your chipset is programmed correctly > > by the BIOS, then there

Re: Serverworks ATA controller & data corruption

2002-02-20 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > > FWIW, Julian had to fix a similar problem by programming > the heck out of a Cyrix MediaGX chipset via a custom > BIOS. *snort* (wakes up).. wha? wha? what is the problem? The one I had to program around was bad DMA for transfers not on a 16 by

Re: Serverworks ATA controller & data corruption

2002-02-20 Thread Terry Lambert
Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Terry Lambert writes: > > > So.. Is PIO safe? Is there any sort of CRC being done on PIO data? > > > > He just said: if your chipset is programmed correctly > > by the BIOS, then there will not be a problem, but > > apparently, there is a very narrow band of "correct

Re: Serverworks ATA controller & data corruption

2002-02-20 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Terry Lambert writes: > > So.. Is PIO safe? Is there any sort of CRC being done on PIO data? > > He just said: if your chipset is programmed correctly > by the BIOS, then there will not be a problem, but > apparently, there is a very narrow band of "correctly" > (perhaps even only a singl

Re: Serverworks ATA controller & data corruption

2002-02-20 Thread Terry Lambert
Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Søren Schmidt writes: > > However the Serverworks > > ROSB4 chips is not one I would recommend using, if you need serious > > ATA support on such a board, install a Promise TX2 or later or a > > HPT370 or later ... > > I don't much care about serious ATA support on th

Re: Serverworks ATA controller & data corruption

2002-02-20 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Søren Schmidt writes: > > Hmm, the problem is known, but belived to be fixed *IF* your BIOS > setup things the right way. I've newer seen the problem on my > ASUS CUR-DLS, but I have several reports of TYAN's (forgot the model#) > that fails all over. I have not verified if ASUS has done so

Re: Serverworks ATA controller & data corruption

2002-02-20 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Andrew Gallatin wrote: > I have a few machines with the following ata controller: > > atapci0@pci0:15:1: class=0x01018a card=0x chip=0x0266 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 > They're dual-boot FreeeBSD/linux boxes. After loosing 2 filesystems in > linux, I did a web search and I found that

Serverworks ATA controller & data corruption

2002-02-20 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Hi, I have a few machines with the following ata controller: atapci0@pci0:15:1: class=0x01018a card=0x chip=0x0266 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Reliance Computer Corp./ServerWorks' device = 'OSB4 PCI EIDE Controller' class= mass storage subclass = ATA They'