From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: FW: LIBATA issue with SATA drive Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:05:53 +0900 Message-ID: <47183B31.4080002@gmail.com> References: <4716DC7D.6050007@gmail.com> <64bb37e0710181152j7d070258w9b9eeb59cf1f0a1d@mail.gmail.com> <471804CA.9040103@gmail.com> <64bb37e0710182151j6992cde3u4f9ae60aa70e22eb@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 rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.186]:56137 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752181AbXJSFGN (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:06:13 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so361692rvb for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:06:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <64bb37e0710182151j6992cde3u4f9ae60aa70e22eb@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Torsten Kaiser Cc: "Ip, Clarence" , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com Torsten Kaiser wrote: > On 10/19/07, Tejun Heo wrote: >> Torsten Kaiser wrote: >>> I'm currently using 2.6.23-mm1 and 16 boots where all good. >>> (Apart from the unrelated failure with sata_nv and swncq...) >> I see, a different issue then. It's just weird to see similar issues >> popping up now after allterm the time sata_sil24 has been around. > > Just remebered another thing about sata_sil24 that popped up with 2.6.23-mm1. > With this kernel version (comparing to 2.6.23-rc8-mm1) the port > probing time goes up from ~0.5 seconds per port/drive to ~2 seconds. > Also the SControl changed: > > 2.6.23-rc8-mm1: > [ 4.110000] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) > 2.6.23-mm1: > [ 5.930000] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 0) > > But except for increased delay during boot no errors can seen, the > drives work normally. Yeah, PARTIAL / SLUMBER mode restriction is lifted. Dunno whether that's related to the increased delay tho. Will investigate. -- tejun