Re: /dev/sda with 8 byte offset

[Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>]

Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:55:11PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
>> Strange.  I haven't heard of this before.  From which vendor and model
>> is the device, and do you know which chip is on its IDE bridge board?
> 
> I've seen it, all right.  8 bytes stuck in FIFO, pl3507 IDE bridge,
> and judging by google search that turd is b0rken regardless of the
> OS (along the lines of "works under Windows if you power-cycle it
> once in about half an hour").
> 
> Suggested fix: use as a barf-bag; the authors of that thing certainly had
> done that.

Sounds plausible.  I wasn't aware of the particular 8-byte-garbage
symptom (or heard of it and forgot it).

Some people (regardless if Windows, OS X, or Linux users) were able to
make their PL3507 work with new firmware:
http://wiki.linux1394.org/FirmwareDownload

Very old revisions of the chip don't support firmware upload.  And some
boards with newer revisions apparently prevent firmware upload with a
resistor:  http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?p=957178
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Stefan Richter
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