From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: sata_mv important note Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:05:57 -0500 Message-ID: <43CD07D5.30302@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:50091 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750915AbWAQPGA (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:06:00 -0500 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Cc: Andrew Morton For sata_mv users, you should be aware of three things: 1) The Marvell driver is experimental, and not yet considered ready for production use. As Kconfig notes: HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL. 2) There are PCI Message Signalled Interrupt (MSI) problems that are not yet diagnosed. Workaround is to disable MSI. 3) There are still some errata that are not yet implemented. Thus, for some systems, you may see either lockups or data corruption. That's the price of running a HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL driver. Rest assured that all problem reports are read, even if you don't receive a reply. After enough feedback is received, the exact problem becomes more clear. Jeff