From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261833AbULCBOg (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 20:14:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261836AbULCBOf (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 20:14:35 -0500 Received: from 76.80-203-227.nextgentel.com ([80.203.227.76]:35040 "EHLO mail.inprovide.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261833AbULCBOa convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 20:14:30 -0500 To: Alan Cox Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: dma errors with sata_sil and Seagate disk References: <20041201115045.3ab20e03@homer.sarvega.com> <1101944482.30990.74.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1102030431.7175.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> From: =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 02:14:27 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1102030431.7175.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Alan Cox's message of "Thu, 02 Dec 2004 23:33:53 +0000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox writes: > On Iau, 2004-12-02 at 10:01, Måns Rullgård wrote: >> Is there some problem with Seagate drives in general? I'm using two >> ST3160827AS drives on an SI3114 controller, and haven't seen any >> glitches yet. That model is not in the blacklist, and performance is >> what I'd usually expect. Is it pure luck that has kept me away from >> problems? > > I've never been able to get a non NDA list of the affected drives. Got > to love vendors some days Does this mean it is the drives which are faulty, not the controller? These drives are both new, so I suppose known problems might have been fixed. FWIW, they are reported by the kernel thusly: Vendor: ATA Model: ST3160827AS Rev: 3.03 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Vendor: ATA Model: ST3160827AS Rev: 3.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 -- Måns Rullgård mru@inprovide.com