linux-kernel - Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

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Message-ID: <45A426C3.8070208@wolfmountaingroup.com>
Date:	Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:35:31 -0700
From:	"Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com>
To:	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>
CC:	Linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash
 IDE chip under 2.6.18

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 01:46:42PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>  
>
>>I just finished pulling out a melted IDE flash drive out of a Shuttle 
>>motherboard with the intel 945 chipset which claims to support
>>SATA and IDE drives concurrently under Linux 2.6.18.
>>
>>The chip worked for about 30 seconds before liquifying in the chassis.  
>>I note that the 945 chipset in the shuttle PC had some serious
>>issues recognizing 2 x SATA devices and a IDE device concurrently.   Are 
>>there known problems with the Linux drivers
>>with these newer chipsets.
>>    
>>
>
>Had the drive ever been used in any other machine?  
>

Yes, on a SuperMicro X6DHE-G2 Xeon motherboard -- worked fine.

>Had any ide device
>ever been used in this machine before?  
>
Yes. external cabled CDROM Drive seems to work.

Jeff

>It really sounds like a hardware
>problem, since I can't think of anything software could do to make that
>kind of current go through the flash drive.
>
>I remember seeing the controller chip on a 730MB quantum scsi drive
>start to glow red many years ago, just before the drive stopped
>responding to the system (and I turned off the power).  Hardware does
>fail.  It almost never has anything to do with software.
>
>--
>Len Sorensen
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