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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Dave Howorth <dhoworth@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sata_via bus errors fixed?
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:53:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110131105322.GE7459@htj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D4693DB.4070009@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>

Hello,

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:50:03AM +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
> (1) stock SUSE HEAD/11.2 (2.6.37) - works fine with no problem
> (2) SUSE 2.6.37 with the 'magic patch' commented out - shows the problem
> (3) stock updated SUSE 11.2 (2.6.31.14) - shows the problem
> (4) stock SUSE 11.2 with the 'magic patch' added (2.6.31.5) - works fine
> with no problem
> 
> I think that's fairly indicative that the 'magic patch' is able to cure
> my problem with a VT 6241A controller and a Samsung HD103SJ drive.

I see, so the via issue was the same FIFO configuration problem.

> One thing I still need to investigate is why Ubuntu 10.04 was showing
> the problem, but perhaps I never got as far as updating the kernel after
> installing it. (AFAIK as installed it is 2.6.31, whilst the current
> update is 2.6.32-28 which I think should have the patch)

Most likely.  So, that leaves the problem sil was seeing.  Are you
interested in digging that down too?

Thank you.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-31 10:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-24 16:06 sata_via bus errors fixed? Dave Howorth
2011-01-24 17:04 ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-24 17:23   ` Dave Howorth
2011-01-25 10:35   ` Dave Howorth
2011-01-25 10:50     ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-26 10:00       ` Dave Howorth
2011-01-26 10:11         ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-31 10:50           ` Dave Howorth
2011-01-31 10:53             ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2011-01-31 12:19               ` Dave Howorth
2011-01-31 13:24                 ` Tejun Heo
2011-02-04 12:09                   ` Dave Howorth
2011-02-08 11:16                     ` Dave Howorth
2011-02-09  9:43                       ` Tejun Heo
2011-02-09 10:04                         ` Dave Howorth

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