From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Promise SATA TX4 300 port timeout with sata_promise in 2.6.22, kernel panic in 2.6.23 Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:58:38 +0900 Message-ID: <473815BE.4070607@gmail.com> References: <6f048fc10711100443y6e9982b9jc00b3740f0a44d79@mail.gmail.com> <4737D2A3.6010103@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.181]:47980 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754584AbXKLI6v (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:58:51 -0500 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so1459786wah for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:58:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Patric Karlsson Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Patric Karlsson wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> It seems those 3Gbps promise controllers have hard time getting out of >> transmission errors. Is it because hardreset doesn't work? Can we >> fix it? >> >> Also, if 3Gbps can't be made reliable on those controllers, how about >> limiting it to 1.5Gbps by default with appropriate warning messages? >> Without PMP, it's not like we're gonna earn anything by driving the >> thing at 3Gbps. > > I thought this was supposed to be fixed in 2.6.24-RC2 ? Ah.... good news. > Although I'm currently running a TX4 myself in 3Gbit mode with 2.6.23.1, > I'm waiting for 2.6.24 to reach stable until I try it out myself. > 2.6.23.1 seemed to fix the hard-lock when it tried to reset the card > tho, so now I just get a few errors about "soft resetting" in the logs. > No data loss. That's great too. I Stratford, can you please give 2.6.24-rc2 a shot? Thanks. -- tejun