Re: Old Thread: sata_inic162x driver for 2.6.19 timeouts etc

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Bob Stewart wrote:
> Tejun, 
> This is an update to an old thread.
> 
> --- Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Bob Stewart wrote:
>>> I wonder if this card of mine is what's bad.  <snipp.
>> My bet is on broken driver.  sunix driver doesn't seem like it was 
>> written carefully.  Anyways, thanks for testing.  It seems we'll either 
>> have to implement adma mode.  I'll mark the driver broken for 2.6.21. 
>> Thanks.
> 
> I just got your note that there is a new SATA_INIC162X driver, so I
> loaded up kernel 2.6.27-rc2 and gave it a try.  Timeouts again, so I
> ordered a new card on ebay.  I'm sad to say that the errors, months
> ago, were from a card that I had gotten bad from new.  Wasted a lot of my
> time and this list's time.  Sorry about that.  :(
> 
> OTOH, with the new card, both your new driver and the old one seem
> to be OK after several hours of copying ISO files and running "md5sum"
> on the copied filed.  Good job!  Thanks for all the hard work!  If there are
> any other tests needed on this driver let me know before I bow out again.

Ah.. great, so at least something works.  :-)

Any chance you can put the old one under windows and see whether it
works there?

-- 
tejun