Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATA trouble

[Jeff Garzik]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 05:41:14PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <20031129165648.GB14704@xxxxxxx>,
> Jeff Garzik  <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Note that (speaking technically) the SII libata driver doesn't mask all
> >interrupt conditions, which is why it's listed under CONFIG_BROKEN.  So
> >this translates to "you might get a random lockup", which some users
> >certainly do see.
> 
> That begs the question: is that going to be fixed ?

Certainly.


> Also, the low performance of the IDE SII driver is because of
> the bug with request-size (and the bad workaround). Was that
> fixed in the libata version and if so is someone working on
> porting that fix to the IDE version of the driver ?

It is fixed in the libata version.

	Jeff



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