>-----Original Message----- >From: Tejun Heo [mailto:htejun@xxxxxxxxx] >Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 9:34 PM >To: Gaston, Jason D >Cc: Tom Evans; linux-ide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: SATA PMP support in 2.6.24-rc3? > >Gaston, Jason D wrote: >> For reference, here is the dmesg output from the 2.6.24-rc7 kernel W/O >> the patch applied. > >Man, this is weird. Do you happen to have a addonics device too? I >have one 4726 and two 3726s here and none shows such problem. Also, >there are quite a few people confirming that detection is okay on 3726 >and 4726s. > >The failure you're seeing is very similar to what happens on my 4726 if >the first fan-out port is not occupied. 4726 behaves very strangely >when its first port is empty. Even BIOS has to time out on 4726 if the >first port is empty, so I've been thinking it's the peculiarity of the >chip (and considering the shitty ATA emulation of the pseudo config >device I'm not surprised). Also, marvell PMP and new generation of SIMG >PMPs (5723 and friends) work fine with the current code. > >I've never used windows or the binary only Linux driver. Do they work >fine when the first port is unoccupied? Also, is your PMP from >addonics? In most reports, they're saying the array is addonics. I'm >not sure whether it's because that vendor is so popular that there >aren't many alternatives or their hardware is somehow quirky. > >-- >Tejun I am using a Sans Digital PMP, which has a Sil3726CBHU controller in it. I also have an Addonics PMP and it has the same controller in it. Jason - 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
