Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262170AbVBQAoa (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:44:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262171AbVBQAoa (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:44:30 -0500 Received: from centaur.culm.net ([83.16.203.166]:16915 "EHLO centaur.culm.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262170AbVBQAoG convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:44:06 -0500 From: Witold Krecicki To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sil_blacklist - are all those entries necessary? Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 01:43:00 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <200502151706.04846.adasi@kernel.pl> <421228B7.2060204@pobox.com> <200502152129.11236.adasi@kernel.pl> In-Reply-To: <200502152129.11236.adasi@kernel.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502170143.00817.adasi@kernel.pl> X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) X-Scan-Signature: 1d5e9107d870566c30eb901dac84ddeb Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2079 Lines: 44 Dnia wtorek 15 luty 2005 21:29, napisa?e?: > Dnia wtorek 15 luty 2005 17:52, napisa?e?: > > Witold Krecicki wrote: > > > in sata_sil.c there is: > > > sil_blacklist [] = { > > > { "ST320012AS", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE }, > > > { "ST330013AS", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE }, > > > { "ST340017AS", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE }, > > > { "ST360015AS", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE }, > > > { "ST380023AS", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE }, > > > { "ST3120023AS", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE }, > > > { "ST3160023AS", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE }, > > > { "ST3120026AS", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE }, > > > { "ST340014ASL", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE }, > > > { "ST360014ASL", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE }, > > > { "ST380011ASL", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE }, > > > { "ST3120022ASL", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE }, > > > { "ST3160021ASL", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE }, > > > { "Maxtor 4D060H3", SIL_QUIRK_UDMA5MAX }, > > > { } > > > }; > > > I've got ST3120026AS and I've been using it with SIL3112 without this > > > hack for a long time - without any negative effects. The same > > > impression on ST3200822AS - is there any way to check if it is REALLY > > > necessary? 15MB/s is not what I'd expect on SATA... > > > > It's necessary until we can prove otherwise. Simply running well > > without your drive in the blacklist means nothing -- you just haven't > > hit the error condition yet. > > So how can I proove it? Are there any tests? It's been running for over a > year, almost 24/7 and nothing... Still no response - so again: is there ANY way to test if this hack is necessary for specific model of a disk? -- Witold Kr?cicki (adasi) adasi [at] culm.net GPG key: 7AE20871 http://www.culm.net - 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/