Re: [PATCH rc8-mm1] hotfix libata-scsi corruption

Alan Cox
2008-01-22T22:12:14Z

> However, I'd like to see if we can track the problem through the SG_IO
> direct path ... how many adjacent page bytes are corrupt? Just a few or
> a large number (I'm wondering if it's an off by one or off by alignment
> type bug)?

Which ATA controller is involved - in theory ATA DMA is byte aligned safe
(or dword anyway) in practice I don't know if we've ever tested the non
512 byte aligned case historically for ATA just ATAPI ?

Alan