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Message-ID: <469365B2.9020809@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:55:46 +0900
From: Tejun Heo <teheo@...e.de>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, 7091@...rgh.com,
linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, jgarzik@...ox.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sata_sil, writing bug with multiple cards?
Tejun Heo wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
>> On Wednesday 04 July 2007 10:17:34 7091@...rgh.com wrote:
>>
>>>> Most likely it is some sort of hardware bug that we might
>>>> not be able to do much about. Have you tried contacting SIL or VIA?
>>> No, I haven't. Like I mentioned above, the OpenBSD drivers seemed to work,
>>> or at least did with similar tests. I would need to run the more extensive
>>> checks to be positive, but those take a lot of time, obviously. And
>>> downtime for the box, a lot of which isn't really manageable, at the moment.
>> Perhaps the OpenBSD drivers program the SIL chip in a different way
>> that avoids this problem.
>>
>>>> e.g. if you have some other system with a different chipset it might
>>>> be useful to test the SIL controllers in those.
>>> The previous motherboard was an AMD 760 chipset, and it had the same
>>> problem.
>> Ok this means it's likely a SIL issue, not a chipset issue.
>
> Hmmmm... okay. I'll take look at the openBSD driver. I still have no
> idea what it can be tho. Maybe, FIFO setup?
Please give a shot at the attached patch on top of 2.6.22. Thanks.
--
tejun
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