From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Old Thread: sata_inic162x driver for 2.6.19 timeouts etc Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:39:17 +0200 Message-ID: <48B26FB5.4070109@gmail.com> References: <747739.95266.qm@web901.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.189]:36128 "EHLO ti-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752281AbYHYIka (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:40:30 -0400 Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b6so908512tic.23 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:40:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <747739.95266.qm@web901.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Bob Stewart Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Bob Stewart wrote: > Tejun, > This is an update to an old thread. > > --- Tejun Heo wrote: >> Bob Stewart wrote: >>> I wonder if this card of mine is what's bad. > 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