Re: [PATCH] ahci: disable FPDMA auto-activate optimization on NVIDIAAHCI

[Jeff Garzik]

On 01/26/2010 11:33 PM, Robert Hancock wrote:
> Mike Cui reported that his system with an NVIDIA MCP79 (aka MCP7A) chipset
> stopped working with 2.6.32. The problem appears to be that 2.6.32 now enables
> the FPDMA auto-activate optimization in the ahci driver. The drive works fine
> with this enabled on an Intel AHCI so this appears to be a chipset bug.
> Since MCP79 is a fairly recent NVIDIA chipset and we don't have any info on
> whether any other NVIDIA chipsets have this issue, disable FPDMA AA optimization
> on all NVIDIA AHCI controllers for now.
>
> Should address http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14922
>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock<hancockrwd@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> Mike, can you test this out and make sure this resolves the problem for you?

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