Re: sil_blacklist - are all those entries necessary?

Witold Krecicki
2005-02-15T20:36:02Z

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...