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From: Eric Mudama <edmudama@gmail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Clem Taylor <clemtaylor@comcast.net>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Re: Any news on a higher performance sata_sil SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE workaround?
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:49:47 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <311601c904081611491c23207d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1092399186.24406.15.camel@localhost.localdomain>

I'm not sure about "affected" drives, but the issue as Jeff pointed
out is that SI3112/3114 send write data to the host in non-multiples
of 512 bytes, if the command exceeds 15 LBAs in size.

Up to 15*512 bytes gives you a single FIS of 15*512, for anything
larger they have an internal algorithm that is pretty easy to figure
out with a bus trace.

To work with drives that aren't capable of handling this, you can't
issue writes > 15 LBAs to the drive, hence the blacklist/workaround.

--eric

      reply	other threads:[~2004-08-16 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-12  5:16 Any news on a higher performance sata_sil SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE workaround? Clem Taylor
2004-08-12  6:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-12 12:00   ` Alan Cox
2004-08-12 15:16     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-12 19:59       ` Alan Cox
2004-08-12 21:03         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-12 20:37           ` Alan Cox
2004-08-13  4:18   ` Clem Taylor
2004-08-13 12:13     ` Alan Cox
2004-08-16 18:49       ` Eric Mudama [this message]

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