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SubjectRe: SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE workaround problem on 2.6.14
[CC'ing Jeff, Carlos & linux-ide]

Ethan Chen wrote:
> I've got a dual Opteron 242 machine here with 2x Seagate ST3200822AS
> SATA drives attached to a Silicon Image SI3114 controller, and after
> upgrading to 2.6.14 from 2.6.13, it seems the SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE
> workaround for the sata_sil driver isn't being applied anymore. This
> caused me trouble in the past before my drive was added to the
> blacklist, and this message that comes up when writing (~4GBfiles to
> test) files, right before the computer locks up, is the same as before:
> kernel: ata1: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0xd8 host_stat 0x61
> In the dmesg, the 'Applying Seagate errata fix' message doesn't appear
> anymore as well.
> Finally, without the fix, write speeds are much higher as well, before
> it locks up.

Hello, Ethan.

Sometime ago, Silicon Image has confirmed that 3114's and 3512's are not
affected by the m15w problem - only 3112's are affected. So, a patch
has made into the tree before 2.6.14 to apply the m15w quirk selectively.

Can you post 'lspci -nv' result?

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tejun
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