Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:50:24 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] faster workaround |
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> The problem is that the 3112 generates Data FIS's of a size other than a > multiple of 512 bytes. Spec-legal, but exposed firmware bugs in many > early SATA drives. Early Seagate hard drives choked when the formula > (sector%15)==1 was satisfied (or something along those lines).
And the 3114 is the same ?
> 2) Once we identified, over time, the set of drives affected by this > 3112 quirk (aka drives that didn't fully comply to SATA spec), the > debugging of corruption cases largely shifted to the standard routine: > update the BIOS, replace the cables/RAM/power/mainboard/slot/etc. to be > certain of problem location.
Except for the continued series of later SI + Nvidia chipset (mostly) pattern which seems unanswered but also being later chips I assume unrelated to this problem. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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