Re: [RFT, PATCH] sata_sil corruption / lockup fix

["Catalin(ux aka Dino) BOIE" <util@deuroconsult.ro>]

> Silicon Image contributed a patch which should help some of the situations 
> that users were seeing.  If you are having problems with sata_sil, please do 
> try out this patch.
>
> I'm concerned that the sata_sil blacklist has been growing beyond the older 
> Seagate drives which definitely had buggy firmware; concerned that the 
> Mod15Write fix was simply "fixing" the problem addressed by this patch, 
> simply by hiding the problem behind slow performance.  [note: the only way to 
> really know for sure is with ATA bus traces]

Hello, Jeff!

Yes, you are right that the list grew too much.
I, for example, have a sil 3112 controller that made problems (mod15) in 
the past (crash on big tranfers). But I upgraded the BIOS (and it shows me 
that even sil firmware was updated) and the problem disappeard.

So, I'll be glad to test this patch, but I can't because now it works very 
good (I manualy remove the disks from blaklist because they have a match 
in the list).

Thanks goes to Silicon Image people that, finally, they release a patch to 
fix this problem.

My motherboard is Intel.

Thanks Jeff.

> On platforms where the SiI BIOS isn't executed (non-x86), this patch is 
> probably more critical.  On x86, it is purported to only be needed on a 
> single motherboard.
>
> Test results (to linux-ide@vger.kernel.org) would be appreciated, 
> particularly from users with newer Seagate drives.
>
> Finally, there are also a few reports of problems of "screaming interrupts" 
> on configurations with SiI 311x + Seagate NCQ drives.  This is a separate 
> problem, and I haven't looked into it yet.
>
> 	Jeff
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