Re: Silicon Image 3112 h/w docs available

[Eric Wong <eric@petta-tech.com>]

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Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> In order to better support open source developers, Silicon Image has 
> been kind enough to give me permission to publicly post the hardware 
> documentation for some of their older SATA chipsets on my docs site, 
> namely the 3112 in this case:
> 
> http://gkernel.sourceforge.net/specs/sii/3112A_SiI-DS-0095-B2.pdf.bz2
> 
> This documentation will assist developers in maintaining the 
> siimage/sata_sil SATA drivers in the Linux kernel.
> 
> So now the 311x joins the ranks of "open hardware".  Thanks, SiI!

Doesn't seem to contain any more info on drives/controllers affected by
the mod15write quirk.  I'd like to see firmware revisions added to the
blacklist, and not just model numbers anymore.  I didn't have that
information when I first implemented the blacklist (model numbers only),
and it still doesn't seem to be available right now.

I'm rather disappointed that the drive (ST3160023AS) I use has managed
to get its way onto the blacklist[1].  I'm using rev 3.05 of that drive
with a 3112 (rev 02), and have been for nearly a year at full speed and
have never had problems under heavy read/write usage.  Setups affected
by an uncorrected mod15write bug are corrupted almost immediately, no?

-- 
Eric Wong -- eric@petta-tech.com -- normalperson@yhbt.net

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