From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
Subject: Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATA trouble
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:41:14 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <20031129165648.GB14704@gtf.org>,
Jeff Garzik  <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>Note that (speaking technically) the SII libata driver doesn't mask all
>interrupt conditions, which is why it's listed under CONFIG_BROKEN.  So
>this translates to "you might get a random lockup", which some users
>certainly do see.

That begs the question: is that going to be fixed ?

Also, the low performance of the IDE SII driver is because of
the bug with request-size (and the bad workaround). Was that
fixed in the libata version and if so is someone working on
porting that fix to the IDE version of the driver ?

Mike.

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