From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268962AbUHMETq (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Aug 2004 00:19:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268963AbUHMETq (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Aug 2004 00:19:46 -0400 Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net ([204.127.202.56]:6655 "EHLO sccrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268962AbUHMETp (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Aug 2004 00:19:45 -0400 Message-ID: <411C4130.4000303@comcast.net> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 00:18:56 -0400 From: Clem Taylor User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Any news on a higher performance sata_sil SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE workaround? References: <411AFD2C.5060701@comcast.net> <411B118B.4040802@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <411B118B.4040802@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > Get a different controller + disk combination. I don't want to dump the disks, but I may be ordering a 3ware controller in the near future. The only reason I didn't get a 3ware controller in the first place was that the Sil 3114 was on the motherboard. > The problem is that the Silicon Image controller sends unusual -- but > legal -- block sizes to the SATA device. > > Older Seagates cannot cope with this unique, but spec-correct behavior. I thought that the Seagate ST3160023AS was a fairly new drive. I noticed a comment that version 3.18 of the firmware may not suffer from this problem, can anyone confirm this? I'm going to try removing my drive from the blacklist and see what happens. >> It would seem that the root of the problem is a Seagate issue. Does >> anyone know if Seagate fixed the problem with a firmware update? > > You could find out for us, and let us know :) I tried, my contact at Seagate doesn't seem to be with them anymore (I haven't worked in the storage space in quite some time). Thanks for the help, Clem