Re: sil_blacklist - are all those entries necessary?

[Jeff Garzik]

Witold Krecicki wrote:
> Dnia czwartek 17 luty 2005 01:59, napisałeś:
>
> > > is there ANY way to test if this hack is necessary for specific model of
> > > a disk?
> >
> > You need a bus analyzer, and need to test different sizes of FIS's.  If
> > all possible sizes (2048 combinations) work on your device, the
> > blacklist entry is not needed.
>
> is there any software bus analyzer? And if so, is there  
> Testing-different-sizes-of-FIS's-for-dummies anywhere ?

You could modify a few drivers to receive an "unknown FIS", or receive 
all FIS's into a DMA-able area that the system could then read.  So it's 
doable.  I just don't have time to teach all of SATA and ATA to you :) 
See http://linux.yyz.us/sata/devel.html

	Jeff
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