On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:36:15 +0900 Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > Hopefully there is a better long term solution but for now lets favour > > reliability. > > I'm getting a lot of reports on pata_ali w/ misc ATAPI commands too. Do > you know whether it's a controller problem or drive one? All the > reports I got are laptops and I can't really ask them to disassemble > their laptops. :-) ALi is one that most definitely appears to be controller related. Thats why I sent Jeff a patch to use DMA for 2K+ transfers only. Some ALi also required the patch to set the xfer lengths. Its only some revs/combinations annoyingly - a lot of them (including the ones I have direct access too) just work. Alan - 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
