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Subject: Re: Any news on a higher performance sata_sil SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Iau, 2004-08-12 at 07:43, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Older Seagates cannot cope with this unique, but spec-correct behavior.
> 
> This issue cannot even be worked around with "nblocks % 15 == 1", as was 
> previously thought.  Using that formula just makes the problem harder to 
> reproduce.

It fixes it completely on the drivers/ide driver.