From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268796AbUHLVKC (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:10:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268793AbUHLVJg (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:09:36 -0400 Received: from havoc.gtf.org ([216.162.42.101]:5046 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268796AbUHLVGB (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:06:01 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:03:45 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik To: Alan Cox Cc: Clem Taylor , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Any news on a higher performance sata_sil SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE workaround? Message-ID: <20040812210345.GA9558@havoc.gtf.org> References: <411AFD2C.5060701@comcast.net> <411B118B.4040802@pobox.com> <1092312030.21994.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> <411B89EA.3040400@pobox.com> <1092340739.22362.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1092340739.22362.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 08:59:00PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2004-08-12 at 16:16, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > It fixes it completely on the drivers/ide driver. > > > > SATA bus traces say otherwise. > > Do you issue 15 or less or just combinations that are ok. With the > siimage driver I just use the 15 limit and after hammering it hard > couldn't get it to fall over, while trying to be clever it did fall > over. hmmm, perhaps I misunderstood your email? '15 or less' limit works, but 'sectors % 15 == 1' still produces odd Data FIS sizes that confuse Seagate drives. I thought you were saying that 'sectors % 15 == 1' was OK. Jeff