On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > This patchset is kicked off by kernel bz#9913 which reports hot > plugging and general detection problems with WD My Book drives. WD > was kind enough to provide me with these drives and I played quite a > bit with a few controllers and weird cabling configurations including > long cables and several genders. > > It was surprisingly easy to trigger link layer problems. eSATA ports > often go through extra cable and gender. eSATA cables tend to be > longer than internal ones and as the cables are much stiffer touching > or moving the cable can easily cause enough wiggle at the connectors > to cause temporary transmission problems and being outside, it's much > more likely to be moved. > > So, with abundant link quality problems, the following problems have > been identified. Tejun, This looks like an important patchset for those of us that use eSata. Any chance these can get into the opensuse 11.1 kernels? Or lacking that, the os factory kernels? Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- 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
