From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: sata_sil boot problems with kernel 2.6.35 and current git Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:39:48 +0200 Message-ID: <4C8A4334.4030808@kernel.org> References: <20100908182651.GA32114@seek.priv> <4C88F69E.6070000@kernel.org> <4C8A210C0200007800015648@vpn.id2.novell.com> <4C8A40EC.3090606@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:55836 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753005Ab0IJOkv (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:40:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4C8A40EC.3090606@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Hugo Antunes Cc: Jan Beulich , Jeff Garzik , Alan Cox , dieter@plaetinck.be, Sergei Shtylyov , gianluca , Mark Lord , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hello, On 09/10/2010 04:30 PM, Hugo Antunes wrote: > Following the list this pasts days as a sysadmin, building a big machine > with 45 sata2 disks (WD green 1.5TB), Sil3124 4 ports sata2 with 9 port > multipliers with 5 each also from Silicom image. > > This machine should smoke but it doesn't, attached is the dmesg dump > where it is possible to see the enourmous ammount of hard and soft > resets.Using Ubuntu/server 10.4 2.6.32-25-server x86_64, been > questioning if this patch could make me have better i/o, sata link > allways at half speed, going to build a debian/ubuntu kernel image > with the patch, if anyone has a link for a deb image with this > patch..apreciated. Please start a new thread. sata_sil and sata_sil24 don't have much in common. Also, it seems you have posted the wrong dmesg. There's no sil24 probing going on in the log. Thanks. -- tejun