From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261941AbULCETt (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:19:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261944AbULCETt (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:19:49 -0500 Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net ([216.254.0.205]:10461 "EHLO mail5.speakeasy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261941AbULCETr (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:19:47 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 22:19:43 -0600 From: John Lash To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Cc: Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: dma errors with sata_sil and Seagate disk Message-ID: <20041202221943.3d19590d@tux> In-Reply-To: References: <20041201115045.3ab20e03@homer.sarvega.com> <1101944482.30990.74.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1102030431.7175.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12cvs126 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 02:14:27 +0100 Måns Rullgård wrote: > Alan Cox writes: > > > On Iau, 2004-12-02 at 10:01, Måns Rullgård wrote: > Does this mean it is the drives which are faulty, not the controller? > These drives are both new, so I suppose known problems might have been > fixed. FWIW, they are reported by the kernel thusly: > > Vendor: ATA Model: ST3160827AS Rev: 3.03 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 > Vendor: ATA Model: ST3160827AS Rev: 3.00 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 > I know that the disk that I'm using has been sitting on a shelf since about last June. It still seems to be a shipping model though. It's showing itself as model: ST380013AS, rev: 3.18. It would be nice if the problem gets fixed someday. Be even nicer if there was a firmware update that could be applied to the older drives..... --john