Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATA trouble

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-11-30T16:32:50Z

Yes, siimage.c contains Maxtor fix as well, there is even comment from
Alan about Marvell PATA<->SATA bridges...

--bart

On Sunday 30 of November 2003 17:27, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > Apply this patch and you should get similar performance from IDE driver.
> > You are probably seeing big improvements with libata driver because you
> > are using Samsung and IBM/Hitachi drives only, for Seagate it probably
> > sucks just like IDE driver...
>
> Looks good to me.
>
> > IDE driver limits requests to 15kB for all SATA drives...
> > libata driver limits requests to 15kB only for Seagata SATA drives...
> >
> > Both drivers still need proper fix for Seagate drives...
>
> Yep. Do you have the Maxtor fix, as well? It's in libata's SII driver,
> though it should be noted that the Maxtor errata only occurs for
> PATA<->SATA bridges, and not for real Maxtor SATA drives.
>
> Jeff