Re: [PATCH rc8-mm1] hotfix libata-scsi corruption

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Jan 22 2008 - 17:15:03 EST


> However, I'd like to see if we can track the problem through the SG_IO
> direct path ... how many adjacent page bytes are corrupt? Just a few or
> a large number (I'm wondering if it's an off by one or off by alignment
> type bug)?

Which ATA controller is involved - in theory ATA DMA is byte aligned safe
(or dword anyway) in practice I don't know if we've ever tested the non
512 byte aligned case historically for ATA just ATAPI ?

Alan
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