> The problem is that the 3112 generates Data FIS's of a size other than a > multiple of 512 bytes. Spec-legal, but exposed firmware bugs in many > early SATA drives. Early Seagate hard drives choked when the formula > (sector%15)==1 was satisfied (or something along those lines). And the 3114 is the same ? > 2) Once we identified, over time, the set of drives affected by this > 3112 quirk (aka drives that didn't fully comply to SATA spec), the > debugging of corruption cases largely shifted to the standard routine: > update the BIOS, replace the cables/RAM/power/mainboard/slot/etc. to be > certain of problem location. Except for the continued series of later SI + Nvidia chipset (mostly) pattern which seems unanswered but also being later chips I assume unrelated to this problem. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
