Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATA trouble

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik_at_pobox.com)
Date: 11/29/03

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    Date:	Sat, 29 Nov 2003 13:39:36 -0500
    To: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
    
    

    On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 05:41:14PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
    > In article <20031129165648.GB14704@gtf.org>,
    > Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
    > >Note that (speaking technically) the SII libata driver doesn't mask all
    > >interrupt conditions, which is why it's listed under CONFIG_BROKEN. So
    > >this translates to "you might get a random lockup", which some users
    > >certainly do see.
    >
    > That begs the question: is that going to be fixed ?

    Certainly.

    > Also, the low performance of the IDE SII driver is because of
    > the bug with request-size (and the bad workaround). Was that
    > fixed in the libata version and if so is someone working on
    > porting that fix to the IDE version of the driver ?

    It is fixed in the libata version.

            Jeff

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