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Bug ID 6491508
Synopsis Intel ICH8/9 may falsely claim to be simplex
State 10-Fix Delivered (Fix available in build)
Category:Subcategory driver:ata-x86
Keywords opensolaris
Responsible Engineer Ying Tian
Reported Against snv_51
Duplicate Of
Introduced In solaris_nevada
Commit to Fix snv_82
Fixed In snv_82
Release Fixed solaris_nevada(snv_82)
Related Bugs 6414392 , 6532763 , 6533247
Submit Date 8-November-2006
Last Update Date 31-January-2008
Description
Category
   driver
Sub-Category
   other
Description
   This is for the enhancement of the Intel/AMD based device drivers to support
Intel's ICH8 family of I/O controller hubs which provide:
PCI Express*, USB, AHCI, SATA, Intel High Definition Audio (Intel HD Audio), SMBus, PCI, ACPI and LPC.
Frequency
   Always
Regression
   No
Steps to Reproduce
   Use BIOS Update 1441 [BX97510J.86A]
Heavy loading of SATA drives and correct detection of ICH8/ICH8R devices can be seen upon booting - although BIOS is configured correctly.
Expected Result
   SATA performance comparable to Windows XP device drivers for SATA.
Actual Result
   Poor SATA performance under heavy disk load.
Error Message(s)
   
Test Case
   http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/D975XBX/tools.htm
Workaround
   
Submitter wants to work on bug
   No
Additional configuration information

The original board was the Intel Desktop Board DQ965GF
Ref: 
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/Q965_Q963/index.htm
(http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/DQ965GF/index.htm
Work Around
N/A
Comments
N/A