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From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IDE hackery: lock fixes and hotplug controller stuff
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:37:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040812203754.GE1087@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0408122122190.12534@mion.elka.pw.edu.pl>

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 09:46:56PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> Also aren't you the one who has made "ide-scsi" interface non-functional
> by introducing ide_setting_sem, he? 8)
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/2/18/146

Yeah I also removed ide-scsi interface from the -ac patches in 2.4 8)

> > I also have the it8212 working in smart but non raid now. Seems issuing an
> > LBA 48 cache flush (0xEF) crashes the firmware which is why it died on load
> > for some users.  To do that I've added hwif->raw_taskfile() so that an
> > interface can filter commands.
> 
> Ouch, they should really fix this in the firmware.

Agreed. I need to verify its not our fault yet. Either way it'll need to
stay there because most people have older firmware. One thing I need to
look at is how to find firmware versions as it seems 1.2 doesnt do LBA48

Alan


  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-12 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-10 16:19 IDE hackery: lock fixes and hotplug controller stuff Alan Cox
2004-08-10 17:16 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-10 18:23   ` Alan Cox
2004-08-12 17:12     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-12 18:56       ` Alan Cox
2004-08-12 19:46         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-12 20:37           ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-08-10 20:48 ` Ian Hastie
2004-08-10 21:06   ` Alan Cox
2004-08-11  0:36     ` Ian Hastie
2004-08-12 19:55       ` Alan Cox
2004-08-12  5:56   ` working sata raid - which controller? Paul
2004-08-12  5:58     ` Jeff Garzik

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