Re: sil_blacklist - are all those entries necessary?

Witold Krecicki
2005-02-17T00:44:30Z

Dnia wtorek 15 luty 2005 21:29, napisałeś:
> Dnia wtorek 15 luty 2005 17:52, napisałeś:
> > Witold Krecicki wrote:
> > > in sata_sil.c there is:
> > > sil_blacklist [] = {
> > > { "ST320012AS", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE },
> > > { "ST330013AS", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE },
> > > { "ST340017AS", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE },
> > > { "ST360015AS", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE },
> > > { "ST380023AS", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE },
> > > { "ST3120023AS", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE },
> > > { "ST3160023AS", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE },
> > > { "ST3120026AS", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE },
> > > { "ST340014ASL", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE },
> > > { "ST360014ASL", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE },
> > > { "ST380011ASL", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE },
> > > { "ST3120022ASL", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE },
> > > { "ST3160021ASL", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE },
> > > { "Maxtor 4D060H3", SIL_QUIRK_UDMA5MAX },
> > > { }
> > > };
> > > I've got ST3120026AS and I've been using it with SIL3112 without this
> > > hack for a long time - without any negative effects. The same
> > > impression on ST3200822AS - is there any way to check if it is REALLY
> > > necessary? 15MB/s is not what I'd expect on SATA...
> >
> > It's necessary until we can prove otherwise. Simply running well
> > without your drive in the blacklist means nothing -- you just haven't
> > hit the error condition yet.
>
> So how can I proove it? Are there any tests? It's been running for over a
> year, almost 24/7 and nothing...
Still no response - so again:
is there ANY way to test if this hack is necessary for specific model of a
disk?