From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750895AbVK3EQ3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:16:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750901AbVK3EQ3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:16:29 -0500 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.207]:54180 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750890AbVK3EQ1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:16:27 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=qtg+sN80Mr5jUTaqvETYnP46P9Y/ata7KUbShVEtcDJz9DBPETXX6Nzv5yw1TDmj32qJMiZgB1M+x0af6hB5sAoxOsH0y/gf3gG+xQAHnWHBzYub9AtpfQjbh/lGrE8Vn516z5Hz1UoboFZeCnaljy+60DxWDgw9YhiXgm5MMTY= Message-ID: <438D2792.9050105@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:16:18 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051019) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ethan Chen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik , Carlos Pardo , Linux-ide Subject: Re: SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE workaround problem on 2.6.14 References: <438BD351.60902@ucla.edu> In-Reply-To: <438BD351.60902@ucla.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [CC'ing Jeff, Carlos & linux-ide] Ethan Chen wrote: > I've got a dual Opteron 242 machine here with 2x Seagate ST3200822AS > SATA drives attached to a Silicon Image SI3114 controller, and after > upgrading to 2.6.14 from 2.6.13, it seems the SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE > workaround for the sata_sil driver isn't being applied anymore. This > caused me trouble in the past before my drive was added to the > blacklist, and this message that comes up when writing (~4GBfiles to > test) files, right before the computer locks up, is the same as before: > kernel: ata1: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0xd8 host_stat 0x61 > In the dmesg, the 'Applying Seagate errata fix' message doesn't appear > anymore as well. > Finally, without the fix, write speeds are much higher as well, before > it locks up. Hello, Ethan. Sometime ago, Silicon Image has confirmed that 3114's and 3512's are not affected by the m15w problem - only 3112's are affected. So, a patch has made into the tree before 2.6.14 to apply the m15w quirk selectively. Can you post 'lspci -nv' result? -- tejun