Re: Any news on a higher performance sata_sil SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITEworkaround?

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Thu Aug 12 2004 - 10:18:11 EST


Alan Cox wrote:
On Iau, 2004-08-12 at 07:43, Jeff Garzik wrote:

Older Seagates cannot cope with this unique, but spec-correct behavior.

This issue cannot even be worked around with "nblocks % 15 == 1", as was previously thought. Using that formula just makes the problem harder to reproduce.


It fixes it completely on the drivers/ide driver.

SATA bus traces say otherwise.

Jeff


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