[Gllug] PCI problems with P67 board

[general_email at technicalbloke.com]

On 21/03/11 01:18, general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:
> On 20/03/11 17:08, Henrik Morsing wrote:
>> Firstly, apologies, turns out Postini swallowed my original mail and this reply.
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:11:34AM +0000, John Edwards wrote:
>>> From the dmesg those errors are on PCI address 0000:07:00.0, which
>>> looks like an Adaptec SCSI card which has all your disks. If that is
>>> having problems then there will be slow or intermittent access to your
>>> filesystems.
>>>
>>> A Google search for 'P67 PCI problems':
>>> 	http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=P67+PcI+problems&btnG=Google+Search
>>> brings up pages which say the P67 does not support PCI itself,
>>> but has to use an external chip to handle this:
>>> 	http://www.soundonsound.com/forum/showflat.php?Board=PCMus&Number=885996
>>> 	http://semiaccurate.com/2010/08/19/intels-p67-h67-and-h61-chipsets-will-lack-native-pci-support/
>>>
>>>
>>> Searching for parts of the error message brings up this Ubuntu bug:
>>> 	https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/424142
>>> which suggests that the 2.6.33 kernel contains a patch.
>> I'll try latest kernel and see if it helps, thanks.
>>
>>> So at a guess, it might be that a cheap PCI bus chip is causing
>>> problems which newer kernels can work around. If possible try a
>>> newer kernel and so if that helps.
>> Thanks for a helpful post. Incidently it's an H67 I've got, remembered wrong. 
>>
>>> Also, are you aware of the product recall on P67 motherboards because
>>> of the faulty SATA controllers?
>>> 	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_bridge#Cougar_Point_chipset_issue
>> Yes, I am, but I only  bought mine two weeks ago and hope it's not affected. I'll see if I can verify it.
>>
>> Thanks again
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>
> If it was the new (fixed) chipset you should see "New B3 Revision" on
> the board or on it's packaging.
>
> Roger

Oh and the H67 was affected by the bug too.

Roger
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