Re: sata_sil data corruption

[Jeff Garzik]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:25:55AM +0000, Doug McLain wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >Doug McLain wrote:
> >
> >>The sata_sil driver is without a doubt, totally hosed.  I, along with 
> >
> >
> >"without a doubt" being defined, of course, as "it works for a lot of 
> >people."
> >
> >    Jeff
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Thats like saying "turn up the radio" when your car makes a funny noise, 
> or "if a tree falls in the woods and nobody is there to hear it, does it 
> make a sound?"
> 
> It's tempting and comforting to pick the good ones as an example, and 
> some bugs are hard enough to find, let alone fix.  In the end though, if 
> one is broke, it's still broke, isn't it?

In this case, the bug _reports_ are hard to find.

Each case with sata_sil is either solved with a BIOS update, a
blacklist entry, or new cables.  Just read through bugzilla.kernel.org.

	Jeff



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