Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATA trouble

Jeff Garzik
2003-11-29T18:39:39Z

On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 05:41:14PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <20031129165648.GB14704@gtf.org>,
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> >Note that (speaking technically) the SII libata driver doesn't mask all
> >interrupt conditions, which is why it's listed under CONFIG_BROKEN. So
> >this translates to "you might get a random lockup", which some users
> >certainly do see.
>
> That begs the question: is that going to be fixed ?

Certainly.

> Also, the low performance of the IDE SII driver is because of
> the bug with request-size (and the bad workaround). Was that
> fixed in the libata version and if so is someone working on
> porting that fix to the IDE version of the driver ?

It is fixed in the libata version.

Jeff