AEC62XX Driver: Can ANYONE Help!?

[Corbett Battaile]

Just to follow up on this, here's the situation with the firmware. The 
AEC6280M cards shipped with firmware v2.14. Updating to v2.15 didn't help. 
Oh well - it was worth a try.

I ordered a couple of Sonnet Tempo 133 cards, which should arrive early 
next week. (This is getting expensive!)


On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Corbett Battaile wrote:
>
> I haven't tried that, but it's definitely worth a shot. Thanks for the 
> suggestion. I just bought the cards a few days ago, so it's likely that 
> they have the latest firmware, but you never know...
> 
> 
> --On 11/19/04 6:38 AM -0800 Norberto Quintanar wrote:
>>
>> Here's a dicey suggestion.  Have you flashed the PCI card's bios with
>> the latest firmware for your card available at:
>> <http://www.acard.com/eng/menu/support.html>
>> and at
>> <http://www.acard.com/eng/support/mac.html>
>>
>>
>> --- Corbett Battaile <ccb at ydl.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Good to know - thanks for the info! If I get a chance, I might try
>>> some
>>> benchmarks with and without DMA enabled.
>>>
>>> I may also try a Sonnet Tempo 133 card. Based on the board layout,
>>> it
>>> appears to be a Promise chip, and presumably the BIOS is more Mac
>>> friendly
>>> so hopefully I'll be able to leave DMA enabled without getting any
>>> errors.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have experience with the Sonnet ATA133 card(s) on
>>> recent
>>> kernels? My main concern stems from my experience with Sonnet's
>>> Presto
>>> Gigabit NIC, which is based on a Realtek R8169 chip. Before I
>>> bought my
>>> Presto GigE, I emailed Sonnet tech support to ask if the Presto is
>>> compatible with YDL. They didn't know. Turns out, I couldn't get
>>> the Presto
>>> to work with YDL, although it works fine with Redhat. Apple's
>>> BCM5703 and
>>> Intel's Pro1000 cards work great with YDL, though. (The former
>>> requires
>>> building and installing the bcm5700 modules for best performance.)
>>>
>>> Thanks again,
>>> - Corbett


-- 
Corbett Battaile <ccb at ydl.net>