Re: SII SATA request size limit

[Alan Cox]

On Gwe, 2003-09-12 at 22:00, Marcelo Penna Guerra wrote:
>      * Rev. <= 0x01 of the 3112 have a bug that can cause data 
>      * corruption if DMA transfers cross an 8K boundary.  This is 
>      * apparently hard to tickle, but we'll go ahead and play it 
>      * safe. 

It isnt that simple, unfortunately you need an NDA for the full story.
If you want to check which chips need it get a setup that hangs reliably
with large transfers, put the same disks on a newer controller that
doesnt and see what happens

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