From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: sata_inic162x driver for 2.6.19 timeouts etc Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:13:22 +0900 Message-ID: <45FA2772.7020404@gmail.com> References: <248173.18921.qm@web806.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.184]:49413 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751911AbXCPFN3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:13:29 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id o25so117597nfa for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:13:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <248173.18921.qm@web806.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Bob Stewart Cc: Mark Lord , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Bob Stewart wrote: > --- Tejun Heo wrote: > >> The driver is seriously broken regarding LBA48 support. The timeout >> goes away if max_sectors is decreased to ATA_MAX_SECTORS - 1, doh. > > Tejun, > > I should have commented on this earlier. I still get occasional timeouts > regardless of the max_sectors settings. Yes, it's much much lower with > some settings vs others, but they're still there. > > I was just messing around and did this. I still got the occasional timeouts. I see. Thanks. We might really need to use the ADMA mode not the TF/quasi-BMDMA mode. -- tejun