Re: SATA 3112 errors on 2.6.7

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

R. J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday 19 of June 2004 01:06, Ricky Beam wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, R. J. Wysocki wrote:
>>
>>>Are your drives out of Seagate, maybe?  If not, what make are they?
>>
>>(As I said in a previous email...) 4 x Seagate ST3160023AS's RAID0'd
>>together in a BIOS "raid" mode compatable manner.
> 
> 
> Sorry, I should have noticed.
> 
> Anyway, it looks like a pattern is forming which smells bad to me.
> 
> Apparently, we have:
> 1) A serious error condition that occurs on Seagate SATA drives connected to 
> Silicon Image controllers.
> 2) As of today we can say that it only occurs on Seagate drives (Ricky, do I 
> remember correctly that you see faulty behavior of such drives with a 3ware 
> RAID?).
> 3) The error is reported by the kernel like that:


I wonder if it helps to add the Seagate drive to the sata_sil blacklist?

/* TODO firmware versions should be added - eric */
struct sil_drivelist {
         const char * product;
         unsigned int quirk;
} 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 },
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