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    GX620 SATA f'ed up in Linux

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by rektide, Apr 25, 2010.

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    Hello,

    Kind of at my ends here. My GX620, when I have the ata_piix module built into the kernel-- the module for the intel SATA chip-- crashes almost right after startup.

    Using generic SATA on this system is stinking slow. Good christ.

    Is anyone here using Linux on one of these bad boys with a 1.14 bios? Do you have ata_piix built into your kernel / using an initramfs?
     
    rektide, Apr 25, 2010
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    i know one of ya'lls got to have run linux. someone load up ubuntu. please help, i really need to know whether its just my system that ata_piix hates or whether its a GX620 issue at large.

    life without DMA is really really ty. really really really. any hd operation at all blocks the cpu.
     
    rektide, Apr 28, 2010
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