From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide/pci/serverworks.c: Fix corruption/timeouts with MegaIDE in RAID mode
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 01:44:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705240144.40334.bzolnier@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070516133715.23194a96@the-village.bc.nu>
On Wednesday 16 May 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
> It turns out from customer reports to Red Hat and some PCI dumps that the
> MegaIDE in RAID mode doesn't provide the drive tuning data that the
> serverworks driver expects but sometimes does provide something that
> fools the code.
>
> For the RAID class case skip the oem setup and don't trust the BIOS data.
> We then tune from scratch and this sorts it out. (This has been confirmed
> on an afflicted IBM blade)
>
> [libata serverworks.c never trusts the BIOS in the first place so is
> accidentally immune]
>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
applied, thanks
> --- drivers/ide/pci/serverworks.c~ 2007-05-16 13:10:16.428324088 +0100
> +++ drivers/ide/pci/serverworks.c 2007-05-16 13:10:16.428324088 +0100
-p1 patch fooled quilt import (fixed by hand)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-24 1:24 UTC|newest]
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2007-05-16 12:37 [PATCH] ide/pci/serverworks.c: Fix corruption/timeouts with MegaIDE in RAID mode Alan Cox
2007-05-23 23:44 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
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