From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [DOC] SATA status report updated Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:51:27 +0900 Message-ID: <44A4131F.8020904@gmail.com> References: <44A0B50F.40404@garzik.org> <87f94c370606290741v45e63336n30df5fdc6a5c2bac@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.227]:59567 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751112AbWF2RvG (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:51:06 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 50so119911wri for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:51:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87f94c370606290741v45e63336n30df5fdc6a5c2bac@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Greg Freemyer Cc: Jeff Garzik , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" Greg Freemyer wrote: > On 6/27/06, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Updated the SATA status report(s) found at >> >> http://linux-ata.org/ >> >> In particular, I created a matrix of drivers and features, to give >> people an idea of fine-grained driver status: >> >> http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html#matrix >> >> As always, comments, questions, and additions are welcome. >> >> Jeff > Jeff / Tejun, > > Great work. If the feedback about reversion issues continues to be as > minimal as it currently is it appears you appear to have rolled out a > great enhancement with minimal errors introduced. I expect to be > using sata/e-sata much more extensively now that this new EH process > is in place. > > Any practical experience about which PCI controllers and/or enclosures > would be best to get if I wanted to use e-Sata and the > hotplug/warmplug logic? I primarily work on sil controllers and ICH7R piix/ahci because I have access to the hardware and docs. So, those tend to get new features first and get a lot of testing. If you're planning on using Port Multiplier, sil3124/32 would be the best bet ATM. -- tejun