From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: stable basic 4-port SATA card Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:25:02 +0900 Message-ID: <47413A4E.5070604@gmail.com> References: <200711151001.lAFA11wC019059@harpo.it.uu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.187]:21779 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752199AbXKSHZK (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:25:10 -0500 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so1346749rvb for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:25:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200711151001.lAFA11wC019059@harpo.it.uu.se> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mikael Pettersson Cc: jeff@jab.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, hancockr@shaw.ca, jeff@garzik.org, liml@rtr.ca, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Mikael Pettersson wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:32:14 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: >> * sata_promise: Generally works okay; however there are still some >> problems with recent 3Gbps chips. (Mikael, please pitch in) > > Right, 2nd-gen 3Gbps chips have had "intermittent" issues, > which we hope are cured by the recent ASIC bug workaround, > but it will take a while for that fix to propagate out. > To speed up that process I'm considering backporting the fix > to 2.6.23 and 2.6.22. > > NCQ and PMP are supported in the hardware and in the vendor's > driver, but not yet in sata_promise. My intention is to add > NCQ soon, but there's no time-plan yet for this. Thanks all. I'll incorporate the info here into linux-ata.org when it gets wikified. -- tejun