From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Issues with SIS 964 chipset on SATA Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:36:41 -0500 Message-ID: <4214E439.6040201@pobox.com> References: <4214551C.8030109@pobox.com> <20050217083825.GA8695@suse.de> <42149B6F.1000502@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:9387 "EHLO parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261177AbVBQSg4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:36:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: <42149B6F.1000502@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Jens Axboe , Gary Poppitz , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Mark Lord wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > >> >>> It looks like I will need to do a workaround for all SATA ATAPI >>> devices: if the transfer is not a multiple of 4 bytes, pad it with an >>> DMA 1-3 byte DMA segment. > > > Yup, that requirement has existed on most of the hardware > I've done drivers for, both SATA and a lot of PATA chips too. PATA too? Interesting... Jeff