Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264935AbTK3Q2Q (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:28:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264936AbTK3Q2Q (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:28:16 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:2737 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264935AbTK3Q2P (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:28:15 -0500 Message-ID: <3FCA1A8F.3000103@pobox.com> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:27:59 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz CC: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcush@onlinehome.de Subject: Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATA trouble References: <3FC36057.40108@gmx.de> <20031129165648.GB14704@gtf.org> <3FC94F5A.8020900@gmx.de> <200311301547.32347.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> In-Reply-To: <200311301547.32347.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > Apply this patch and you should get similar performance from IDE driver. > You are probably seeing big improvements with libata driver because you are > using Samsung and IBM/Hitachi drives only, for Seagate it probably sucks just > like IDE driver... Looks good to me. > IDE driver limits requests to 15kB for all SATA drives... > libata driver limits requests to 15kB only for Seagata SATA drives... > > Both drivers still need proper fix for Seagate drives... Yep. Do you have the Maxtor fix, as well? It's in libata's SII driver, though it should be noted that the Maxtor errata only occurs for PATA<->SATA bridges, and not for real Maxtor SATA drives. Jeff - 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/