Re: sata_sil data corruption

Prakash Punnoor
2005-02-21T16:35:18Z

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Jeff Garzik schrieb:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:25:55AM +0000, Doug McLain wrote:
>
>>Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>
>>>Doug McLain wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>The sata_sil driver is without a doubt, totally hosed. I, along with
>>>
>>>
>>>"without a doubt" being defined, of course, as "it works for a lot of
>>>people."
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Thats like saying "turn up the radio" when your car makes a funny noise,
>>or "if a tree falls in the woods and nobody is there to hear it, does it
>>make a sound?"
>>
>>It's tempting and comforting to pick the good ones as an example, and
>>some bugs are hard enough to find, let alone fix. In the end though, if
>>one is broke, it's still broke, isn't it?
>
>
> In this case, the bug _reports_ are hard to find.
>
> Each case with sata_sil is either solved with a BIOS update, a
> blacklist entry, or new cables. Just read through bugzilla.kernel.org.

I personally think the driver is OK (works for me like a charm with my Samsung
drive), but as I reported a few times, SiI will corrupt data if ext-p2p
discard time setting in bios is set to too low values.

So, Jeff, don't you think adding a quirk to the kernel would prevent such
reports. (I am damn sure, this reports are cause of the setting I am talking
about.) Perhaps you could ask SiI how to do this in the kernel...

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Prakash Punnoor

formerly known as Prakash K. Cheemplavam

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