Re: Linux 2.6.10-ac1

[Andreas Steinmetz]

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> Workaround it if it is possible.  If this is really a unfixable hardware problem
> (hard to believe - other OS-es would be also bitten by the issue) shouldn't it
> be workaround differently anyway by something like "ide=serialize_all" (which
> is much saner from IDE POV than "idex=serialize") ?

Bad. This would neatly kill my raid 5 setup performance wise. Call this 
idea a big step sideways. Doing a ide2=serialize leaves all three disks 
running without serialization unless the dvd-rw is used. Just to make it 
clear:
ide0 -> onboard, 1 master (disk)
ide1 -> onboard, 1 master (disk)
ide2/3 -> pci, 2 master (disk,dvd-rw)
Your idea would serialize all ide accesses which would slow down all 
disks not affected by the problem requiring serialization.
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