[SeaBIOS] Issues with ASRock E350M1

[Marshall Buschman]

More food for thought - the device works just fine with Linux as the 
payload.

On 06/05/2011 01:22 PM, Marshall Buschman wrote:
> I picked up another sandforce SSD myself, an OCZ vertex 2 120gb. 
> Absolutely no issues.
> I hacked around in the SeaBIOS AHCI code a bit.
> Adding 100ms of wait between the port reset and the probe causes the 
> drive to work properly, but this is a really, really bad hack -- and 
> from what Kevin was saying earlier, the drive reports ready and is not.
>
> I'm inclined to believe that Corsair did a very poor job of 
> implementing their firmware (which is sad, because typically, I find 
> Corsair products to be of high quality), and that this drive only 
> works at all because legacy BIOS systems take virtually forever to 
> start, and this conceals the failure of the Corsair firmware to behave 
> properly.
>
> I suppose the question is .. do we have any desire to support 
> hideously broken disk firmware? If so, I will hold onto the disk so we 
> can test with it (as nothing else that I have behaves this way -- even 
> mechanical disks work fine) - otherwise, I'll be returning it to the 
> place that I bought it from as defective, which it is.
>
> Thanks!
> -Marshall Buschman
>
> On 6/5/2011 2:46 AM, Scott Duplichan wrote:
>> Marshall Buschman wrote:
>>
>> ]Or not! It's back. Same issue as before.
>> ]
>> ]Quoting mbuschman at lucidmachines.com:
>> ]
>> ]>  Mystery solved - the drive's shipping firmware was causing this
>> ]>  behavior - an upgrade to the latest firmware (2.0) resolves this.
>> ]>
>> ]>  Thanks!
>> ]>  -Marshall Buschman
>> ]>
>> ]>  Quoting mbuschman at lucidmachines.com:
>> ]>
>> ]>>  I should mention that a 16gb Kingston SSD I have works just fine,
>> ]>>  as well as a 500gb traditional hard disk.
>> ]>>  Looks like this might be a problem with the disk itself. I know the
>> ]>>  Sandforce controllers do all kinds of "smart" things like
>> ]>>  compressing data to achieve greater throughput. I'll investigate
>> ]>>  and see what I can find.
>>
>> Hello Marshall,
>>
>> An SSD drive I bought for boot time testing also has the
>> SandForce sf-1200 controller:
>> http://www.mushkin.com/Digital-Storage/SSDs/MKNSSDCL40GB-DX.aspx
>>
>> I have not noticed any detection problem with it. Let me know
>> if there is any experiment I could do with it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Scott
>>
>>
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