On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:29:34 -0400 Mark Lord <liml@xxxxxx> wrote: > Workaround for errata SATA#24 in sata_mv. > This errata affects WRITE_MULTI* commands when > the device multi_count produces a DRQ block size >= 4Kbytes. > > We work around it here by converting such operations > into ordinary PIO_WRITEs instead. > > Note that this might result in a PIO FUA write unavoidably being converted > into a non-FUA write. In practice, any system using FUA is also going to be > using DMA rather than PIO, so this shouldn't affect anyone in the real world. You can just screen the FUA bit from the identify data when you do the drive setup to avoid that bit. 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
