Re: dma errors with sata_sil and Seagate disk

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Dec 01 2004 - 19:47:49 EST


On Mer, 2004-12-01 at 17:50, John Lash wrote:
> I don't see any indication that Seagate has released any public firmware
> upgrades for this drive. Anybody have a suggestion?

Don't mix seagate drives and SI311x hardware is the best suggestion.
Even if you activate the workaround for the problem you take a
performance hit.

Please send Jeff Garzik a patch for the the change you made of course.

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