Re: sata_inic162x driver for 2.6.19 timeouts etc

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Bob Stewart wrote:
>> I wonder if this card of mine is what's bad.  I loaded Sarge 2.4 and the
>> Sunix driver and a new disk onto my test whore.  I got essentially the 
>> same sort of errors as with your driver (see below) but in this case,
>> abolutely nothing was ever reliable, including the partition table.  I'm
>> not sure I want to buy another card to test this out, though.  Maybe 
>> I'll put the card in my other machine just to verify it's not a mobo 
>> issue, though.   crapcrapcrap!
>>
>> Sample errors:
>>
>> drive not ready for command
>> status timeout: status = 0x80 { busy }
>>
>> error = 0x00 { }
>> dma_intr: status = 0x51 {drive ready SeekComplete error}
> 
> My bet is on broken driver.  sunix driver doesn't seem like it was 
> written carefully.  Anyways, thanks for testing.  It seems we'll either 
> have to implement adma mode.  I'll mark the driver broken for 2.6.21. 


Broken, or LBA28-only?

I would think that we have other controllers that need an LBA28-only 
flag.  (note: don't be fooled by ATA_FLAG_PIO_LBA48, that doesn't quite 
do what we want)

Alan, Mark, surely some ancient controller simply can't do LBA48 at all, 
even in PIO mode?

	Jeff