From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Prakash Punnoor Subject: Re: sata_sil data corruption Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:35:42 +0100 Message-ID: <421A0DDE.7020904@arcor.de> References: <421778E4.8060705@pobox.com> <4219A3AD.1000002@comcast.net> <421A0990.7070506@pobox.com> <4219C543.8030903@comcast.net> <20050221162923.GA29621@havoc.gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigB17363451E1CF7B16261F8E3" Received: from mail-in-02.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.42]:62100 "EHLO mail-in-02.arcor-online.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262028AbVBUQfD (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:35:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20050221162923.GA29621@havoc.gtf.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Doug McLain , PALFFY Daniel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB17363451E1CF7B16261F8E3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jeff Garzik schrieb: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:25:55AM +0000, Doug McLain wrote: > >>Jeff Garzik wrote: >> >>>Doug McLain wrote: >>> >>> >>>>The sata_sil driver is without a doubt, totally hosed. I, along with >>> >>> >>>"without a doubt" being defined, of course, as "it works for a lot of >>>people." >>> >>> Jeff >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>Thats like saying "turn up the radio" when your car makes a funny noise, >>or "if a tree falls in the woods and nobody is there to hear it, does it >>make a sound?" >> >>It's tempting and comforting to pick the good ones as an example, and >>some bugs are hard enough to find, let alone fix. In the end though, if >>one is broke, it's still broke, isn't it? > > > In this case, the bug _reports_ are hard to find. > > Each case with sata_sil is either solved with a BIOS update, a > blacklist entry, or new cables. Just read through bugzilla.kernel.org. I personally think the driver is OK (works for me like a charm with my Samsung drive), but as I reported a few times, SiI will corrupt data if ext-p2p discard time setting in bios is set to too low values. So, Jeff, don't you think adding a quirk to the kernel would prevent such reports. (I am damn sure, this reports are cause of the setting I am talking about.) Perhaps you could ask SiI how to do this in the kernel... -- Prakash Punnoor formerly known as Prakash K. Cheemplavam --------------enigB17363451E1CF7B16261F8E3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCGg3exU2n/+9+t5gRAtooAJ44lVsBiRvUnNpbL5fiwo2EAssR9gCeJyGW +hEDSFayQ6LahOsRi6Kd24Q= =gaM1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB17363451E1CF7B16261F8E3--