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Subject: Re: dma errors with sata_sil and Seagate disk
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: John Lash <jlash@speakeasy.net>
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On Mer, 2004-12-01 at 17:50, John Lash wrote:
> I don't see any indication that Seagate has released any public firmware
> upgrades for this drive. Anybody have a suggestion?

Don't mix seagate drives and SI311x hardware is the best suggestion.
Even if you activate the workaround for the problem you take a
performance hit.

Please send Jeff Garzik a patch for the the change you made of course.