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From: Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@ans.pl>
Subject: Re: stable basic 4-port SATA card
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:37:50 +0100
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To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: Patric Karlsson <patric@ce.chalmers.se>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org

On 2007-12-13 15:09, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Patric Karlsson writes:
>  > Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>  > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:32:14 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
>  > >> * sata_promise: Generally works okay; however there are still s=
ome
>  > >> problems with recent 3Gbps chips. (Mikael, please pitch in)
>  > >=20
>  > > 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.
>  > >=20
>  > > 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.
>  > >=20
>  > > /Mikael
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>  > >=20
>  >=20
>  > Backporting would be nice, since we're still some ways from a stab=
le=20
>  > 2.6.24, and I'm not comfortable running -rc kernels in production=20
>  > enviroments.
>=20
> Ok.
>=20
> For 2.6.23 there is one patch:
>=20
> <http://user.it.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/patches/sata_promise/patch-sata_pr=
omise-1-asic-sg-bug-fix-v3-2.6.23>
> This is the workaround for the ASIC PRD/SG bug.
>=20
> For 2.6.22 there are two patches:
>=20
> <http://user.it.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/patches/sata_promise/patch-sata_pr=
omise-1-ft_tx4200-is-gen2-2.6.22>
> This corrects the classification of FastTrack TX4200 cards,
> which in turn fixes nasty errors in how they are accessed.
>=20
> <http://user.it.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/patches/sata_promise/patch-sata_pr=
omise-2-asic-sg-bug-fix-v3-2.6.22>
> This is the workaround for the ASIC PRD/SG bug.

Maybe -stable should get this?

Best regards,

				Krzysztof Ol=EAdzki