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SubjectRe: Silicon Image 3112A SATA trouble
Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>>Jens Axboe wrote:
>>
>>>>Well, the constraint we must satisfy is
>>>>
>>>> sector_count % 15 != 1
>>>
>>>
>>> (sector_count % 15 != 1) && (sector_count != 1)
>>>
>>>to be more precise :)
>>
>>
>>Thanks for the clarification, I did not know that.
>>
>>Avoiding sector_count==1 requires additional code :( Valid requests
>>might be a single sector. With page-based blkdevs requests smaller than
>>a page would certainly be infrequent, but are still possible, with bsg
>>for example...
>
>
> You misread it... sector_count == 1 is fine, sector_count % 15 == 1 is
> ok when sector_count is 1 (it would have to be, or sector_count == 1
> would not be ok :)


Ahh, duh. Thanks again. Yeah, it makes sense since the bug arises from
too-large Serial ATA data transactions on the SATA bus...

Jeff



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