From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH] pata_ali: Lots of problems still showing up with small ATAPI DMA Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:36:15 +0900 Message-ID: <474CC60F.9040807@gmail.com> References: <20071119143758.3c6b85ee@the-village.bc.nu> 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 ([209.85.198.185]:5148 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752404AbXK1BgX (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:36:23 -0500 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so1068962rvb for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:36:22 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20071119143758.3c6b85ee@the-village.bc.nu> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: jeff@garzik.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > Hopefully there is a better long term solution but for now lets favour > reliability. I'm getting a lot of reports on pata_ali w/ misc ATAPI commands too. Do you know whether it's a controller problem or drive one? All the reports I got are laptops and I can't really ask them to disassemble their laptops. :-) Thanks. -- tejun