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From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Scary Intel SATA errors..
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:42:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061129184207.68a57ea9@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <456DD08E.4050402@rtr.ca>

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:25:18 -0500
Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca> wrote:

> I'm betting that the ata_piix hardware has some kind of internal pipeline that
> gets confused *sometimes* when a non-512 multiple passes through.  Rarely, though.

It will do this if the FIFO setup is misconfigured.
 
> I wonder if there's something on that device that we could bit-bang to reset 
> it's internal pipelines?

That would cripple performance and just ask for more bizarre bugs.
Firstly I think it makes sense to verify/play with the fifo and prefetch
setup then verify the problem case and see what Intel think.

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-29 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-14 15:04 [git patches] libata fixes Jeff Garzik
2006-11-14 16:32 ` Mark Lord
2006-11-14 16:41   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-14 18:11     ` Mark Lord
2006-11-28 16:56 ` Scary Intel SATA errors Linus Torvalds
2006-11-29 18:25   ` Mark Lord
2006-11-29 18:42     ` Alan [this message]
2006-12-01 19:42     ` Alan
2006-11-28 17:31 ` Scary Intel SATA problem: "frozen" Linus Torvalds
2006-11-28 17:37   ` Mark Lord
2006-11-28 17:55     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-11-28 20:12       ` Eric D. Mudama
2006-11-28 20:36         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-11-29  1:12     ` Tejun Heo
2006-11-28 18:05   ` Alan
2006-11-28 18:33     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-28 21:03   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-28 21:45     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-28 22:18   ` Jeff Garzik

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