From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
To: casino_e@terra.es
Cc: B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Changes in siimage driver?
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 00:36:43 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10309210035440.9002-100000@master.linux-ide.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1cbb951cc475.1cc4751cbb95@teleline.es>
Did that already, yet the linux does not like odd break point in the SG
list and thus there are some ugliess to solve.
Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, CASINO_E wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 of September 2003 14:09, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > controllers. I believe freebsd's workaround is correct and we can
> adopt > it.
> > For more details please see the other thread regarding siimage.
>
> According to what I've seen in the release notes of the closed-source
> siimage driver (I posted what I found), the right fix could be in
> netbsd's code, but in sys/dev/ata/wd.c :
>
> * Some Seagate S-ATA drives have a PHY which can get confused
> * with the way data is packetized by some S-ATA controllers.
> *
> * The work-around is to split in two any write transfer whose
> * sector count % 15 == 1 (assuming 512 byte sectors).
>
> I'm not smart enough to try and write a patch, but maybe the siimage
> maintainer could have a look to that file...
>
> Eduardo.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-21 7:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-18 9:17 CASINO_E
2003-09-21 7:36 ` Andre Hedrick [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-19 23:14 Bob Johnson
2003-09-19 23:31 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-09-17 16:26 Arve Knudsen
2003-09-17 16:40 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-17 18:49 ` Arve Knudsen
2003-09-17 19:09 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-09-17 20:00 ` Arve Knudsen
2003-09-17 20:53 ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-18 12:14 ` Alan Cox
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