From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Small Subject: Re: decoding PMP errors with Marvel SATA controller Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:55:02 +0100 Message-ID: <4E14CBA6.4010908@seoss.co.uk> References: <20110626070820.GC24867@merlins.org> <20110626090309.GA12200@mtj.dyndns.org> <4E076E9E.9080400@pobox.com> <20110627000614.GA5362@merlins.org> <4E07DCF5.1090506@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from relay0.allsecurenet.com ([109.169.27.60]:57279 "EHLO relay0.allsecurenet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756189Ab1GFUzY (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2011 16:55:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Hubert Bailey Cc: 'Mark Lord' , Marc MERLIN , Tejun Heo , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Larry Li On 27/06/11 02:58, Hubert Bailey wrote: > Typically the biggest issues are with the PMPs that have internal RAID controllers. These parts do not follow the SATA spec when they are not in RAID mode. > FWIW, the errors and performance issues which I have been seeing with the 88SE91xx are with a SiI 3726 - which is AFAIK the most common PMP chip, and has no RAID features... Cheers, Tim. -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited Registered in England and Wales with company number 06134732. Registered Office: 2 Powell Gardens, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1TQ VAT number: 900 6633 53 http://seoss.co.uk/ +44-(0)1273-808309