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FromShawn Starr <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH][2.6.12-rc4][SATA] sil driver - Blacklist Maxtor disk
DateFri, 27 May 2005 00:09:33 -0400
Any way i can get you the bus trace? the box Im using is 
'disposable' (reinstallable)

On May 27, 2005 00:01, Eric D. Mudama wrote:

> I don't believe that drive is vulnerable to the traditionally
> described SI issue, as it's based on  Marvell bridge IP.  If that
> drive was vulnerable, so would be the drives of more than one other
> large vendor.  I would bet something else is actually the root cause,
> and by using smaller transfers or something you're just hiding the
> race condition, not fixing a root cause.
>
> (obviously i'd love to see a bus trace of the hang in action, but not
> everyone can swap their cars for bus analyzers...)
>
> --eric
>
> On 5/24/05, Shawn Starr <shawn.starr@rogers.com> wrote:
> > Yes, I know we shouldn't do this, but at the current
> > time, this seems to fix DMA READ/WRITE timeout
> > problems. This also may fix the sata_nv driver as
> > well, but this seems indicate that there is a lowlevel
> > problem with the SATA subsystem.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Shawn Starr <shawn.starr@rogers.com>
> >
> > --- sata_sil.c.old      2005-05-24 12:19:20.312197269
> > -0400
> > +++ sata_sil.c  2005-05-11 14:05:26.000000000 -0400
> > @@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ struct sil_drivelist {
> >         { "ST380011ASL",        SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE
> > },
> >         { "ST3120022ASL",       SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE
> > },
> >         { "ST3160021ASL",       SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE
> > },
> > +       { "Maxtor 6Y080M0",     SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE
> > },
> >         { "Maxtor 4D060H3",     SIL_QUIRK_UDMA5MAX },
> >         { }
> >  };
> >
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