Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262354AbTIUHzz (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Sep 2003 03:55:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262355AbTIUHzy (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Sep 2003 03:55:54 -0400 Received: from astound-64-85-224-253.ca.astound.net ([64.85.224.253]:39950 "EHLO master.linux-ide.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262354AbTIUHzw (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Sep 2003 03:55:52 -0400 Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 00:36:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Andre Hedrick 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? In-Reply-To: <1cbb951cc475.1cc4751cbb95@teleline.es> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1560 Lines: 42 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. > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/