Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:17:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, alan@redhat.com,
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Subject: Re: Warn about taskfile?
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Bartlomiej,

It is the port not the driver.
Proof is PIO read and writes work, and DMA reads work.
DMA writes is directly related the the SG construction, this was an issue
w/ ia64 w/ atapi and addon cards.  In the end the given vendor determined
it was their problem (./arch/*) and not the driver.

-a

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> >
> > I had some strange fs corruption, and andi suggested that it probably
> > is TASKFILE-related. Perhaps this is good idea?
> 
> Idea is good.
> 
> Did corruption go away after disabling taskfile?
> Taskfile was by default on for 2.5.72 and 2.5.73 and Andi's unexplained
> x86-64 + AMD8111 corruption was the only one reported to me / on lkml.
> 
> dmesg and hdparm /dev/scratchdisk for a start, please.
> 
> --
> Bartlomiej
> 
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