Re: Any news on a higher performance sata_sil SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE workaround?

[Jeff Garzik]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 08:59:00PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2004-08-12 at 16:16, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > It fixes it completely on the drivers/ide driver.
> > 
> > SATA bus traces say otherwise.
> 
> Do you issue 15 or less or just combinations that are ok. With the 
> siimage driver I just use the 15 limit and after hammering it hard
> couldn't get it to fall over, while trying to be clever it did fall
> over.

hmmm, perhaps I misunderstood your email?

'15 or less' limit works, but 'sectors % 15 == 1' still produces odd
Data FIS sizes that confuse Seagate drives.

I thought you were saying that 'sectors % 15 == 1' was OK.

	Jeff



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