Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:41:11 +0000 (GMT) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH rc8-mm1] hotfix libata-scsi corruption |
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On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Alan Cox wrote: > > However, I'd like to see if we can track the problem through the SG_IO > > direct path ... how many adjacent page bytes are corrupt? Just a few or > > a large number (I'm wondering if it's an off by one or off by alignment > > type bug)?
We moved away from that concern ....
> Which ATA controller is involved - in theory ATA DMA is byte aligned safe > (or dword anyway) in practice I don't know if we've ever tested the non > 512 byte aligned case historically for ATA just ATAPI ?
.... but if it's still relevant, this was with ata_piix.
Hugh
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