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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Harri Olin <harri.olin@gmail.com>,
	IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
	Brian Rademacher <rad@radfiles.net>,
	Eamonn Hamilton <EAMONN.HAMILTON@saic.com>
Subject: Re: sata_mv: trial fix for lost NCQ interrupts
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:08:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <496E6259.3000502@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <496E589E.7090909@garzik.org>

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Harri Olin wrote:
>> I still see timeouts only on 4 lower ports where disk has also been 
>> connected to port +4. i.e. if port 7 is empty, port 3 will work just 
>> fine. I just would like to see some confirmation that others are 
>> seeing this same kind of behavior.
> 
> 
> hmmmm, that is quite interesting.   That seems to indicate something 
> related to the dual-HC mechanism (8-port cards are really two 4-port 
> chips internally)...
..

Yup.  As I just noted on the redhat bugzilla entry,
this bug only bites when drives are attached to *both*
the lower and upper halves of the chip.

The second patch fixes that problem.
Once we hear back again from some affected users,
I'll reissue it for upstream/backstream.

Thanks

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-14 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-13 21:17 sata_mv: trial fix for lost NCQ interrupts Mark Lord
2009-01-14 21:06 ` Harri Olin
2009-01-14 21:26   ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-14 22:08     ` Mark Lord [this message]
2009-01-14 22:06   ` Mark Lord
2009-01-14 23:18     ` Harri Olin
2009-01-14 23:22       ` Brian Rademacher
2009-01-15  2:53       ` Mark Lord
2009-01-15 13:06         ` Artem Bokhan
2009-01-16 17:03           ` [PATCH] sata_mv: fix timeouts on lower ports of 508x/6081 chips Mark Lord
2009-01-16 20:08             ` Harri Olin
2009-01-17  2:10               ` Brian Rademacher
2009-01-14 22:01 ` sata_mv: trial fix for lost NCQ interrupts Brian Rademacher

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