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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>,
	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>, <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: sata_via: SError: { UnrecovData Proto TrStaTrns }
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:53:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091014125344.7d0b2597@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19157.6679.939371.469696@pilspetsen.it.uu.se>

> I guess you didn't see Alan Cox' recent comment about the vt6421:
> <http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=125526699500519&w=2>.
> 
> You should probably look for a mini-PCI card with a different chipset.

Docs have appeared - whether they will help tie it down completely I
don't know.

>  > -RAID bus controller: VT6421 IDE RAID Controller (rev 50)
>  > +IDE interface: VT6421 IDE RAID Controller (rev 50) (prog-if 8f [Master
>  >          SecP SecO PriP PriO])

That shouldn't matter of itself - its basically header differences
>  > 
>  > -        Control: Mem- FastB2B+ ...
>  > +        Control: Mem+ FastB2B- ...
>  > 
>  > Mem - I guess x86-64 enables it for BIOS access. This is the only PCI
>  > device in machine A (ARM).
>  > 
>  > -        Latency: 32
>  > +        Latency: 64

These two may be worth playing with, especially latency. Forcing the
latency on the problem board would be interesting given that it is a DMA
transfer that is failing.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-14 11:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-05 13:18 Krzysztof Halasa
2009-10-05 14:37 ` Mikael Pettersson
2009-10-06 18:21   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-10-06  1:58 ` Robert Hancock
2009-10-06 18:22   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-10-06 16:26 ` Mikael Pettersson
2009-10-06 18:49   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-10-13 23:18   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-10-14  0:16     ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-10-14  0:23     ` Mikael Pettersson
2009-10-14 11:53       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-10-20 16:00         ` Krzysztof Halasa

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