Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.6.19.1, sata_sil: sata dvd writer doesn't work

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Alan Cox wrote:
>>> A thing that crossed my mind was a timing issue. Perhaps the dmaing of <
>>> 60 bytes is that
>>> fast that the interrupt that causes it is not yet handled correctly. But
>>> this is just a very wild guess.
>> I don't think that can happen.  Controllers are required to queue
>> interrupt till FIFO is flushed.  Can you post dmesg after such errors?
> 
> Random finger in the air guess - the FIFO on the SIL DMA engine is 64
> bytes long ? Perhaps this is something Jeff can query with his contacts
> at Silicon Image ?

That sounds plausible.  I have pretty good relationship with SIMG.  I'll
ask them.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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