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* inic162x
@ 2015-01-03 20:25 mtths
  2015-01-05 15:16 ` inic162x One Thousand Gnomes
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From: mtths @ 2015-01-03 20:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-ide

Hi,

a simple question about the module sata_inic162x: Is there a chance that the 
driver will reach a stable state?

A card with such a controller was used mainly for video recording - and, yes, 
there were errors ... After a short test it seemed that copying big files or 
many small files resulted in corrupted copies; only writing infrequently small 
files was okay. This applies to both channels / ports.

The card is an equip 111817 (S/N: 11072600052): 1 internal + 1 external port
Initio INIC-1622TA2
RAID-BIOS: version 1.11
lspci: 1101:1622

If you want additional information or tests, let me know.
(On the other hand: Mark it as broken - there are inexpensive alternatives 
...)

Matthias

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* Re: inic162x
  2015-01-03 20:25 inic162x mtths
@ 2015-01-05 15:16 ` One Thousand Gnomes
  2015-01-06  3:02   ` inic162x Dale R. Worley
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: One Thousand Gnomes @ 2015-01-05 15:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mtths; +Cc: linux-ide

On Sat, 03 Jan 2015 21:25:28 +0100
mtths@nurfuerspam.de wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> a simple question about the module sata_inic162x: Is there a chance that the 
> driver will reach a stable state?
> 
> A card with such a controller was used mainly for video recording - and, yes, 
> there were errors ... After a short test it seemed that copying big files or 
> many small files resulted in corrupted copies; only writing infrequently small 
> files was okay. This applies to both channels / ports.
> 
> The card is an equip 111817 (S/N: 11072600052): 1 internal + 1 external port
> Initio INIC-1622TA2
> RAID-BIOS: version 1.11
> lspci: 1101:1622
> 
> If you want additional information or tests, let me know.
> (On the other hand: Mark it as broken - there are inexpensive alternatives 
> ...)

There are people it works very well for, and a few it doesn't. It's hard
to know if its the drive, the card, the software ore some combination of
all three.

Whether anyone ever fixes those cases depends upon whether anyone who
hits it wants to spend some considerable time trying to debug it all and
submit patches.

Alan

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* Re: inic162x
  2015-01-05 15:16 ` inic162x One Thousand Gnomes
@ 2015-01-06  3:02   ` Dale R. Worley
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Dale R. Worley @ 2015-01-06  3:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: One Thousand Gnomes; +Cc: mtths, linux-ide

Looking at
https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Hardware,_driver_status, I see
that driver sata_inic162x is listed with maturity of "production".
Presumably this should be corrected.

Dale

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