On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Alan Cox wrote: > > > I didn't know any of that. The changelog might have been kinda fun, but > > given that it failed to tell us that the patch fixes data-corruption > > errors, the changelog was excrutiatingly bad. > > I have no reason/evidence to believe it fixes data corruption errors of > any kind. For the specific combinations of device it should simply avoid > a long pause, complaints and a switch to lower speeds. http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg16599.html There is strange coincidence with being on the blacklist and FIFO corruption. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433557 Bugzilla Bug 433557: Data corrupion with Fedora8 on HPT370 disk controller (Abit BX133 mobo) IBM-DTLA-307030 is on the blacklist.... [ there can be more libata problems involved, anyway FC6 w/IDE works fine ] > The ATA disk case with serverworks (which is a potential corruptor) was > always correctly handled. for OSB4 yes but... /* Seagate Barracuda ATA IV Family drives in UDMA mode 5 * can overrun their FIFOs when used with the CSB5 */ static const char *csb_bad_ata100[] = { Thanks, Bart -- 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
