Re: sata_promise: Keeps saying SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)

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On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 03:06:37PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>  > 
>  > Sorry, I dropped the ball on that one. (Too many projects requiring
>  > my attention.) I think the safest solution is to just disable hotplug
>  > interrupts on SATA1 chips. I'll give that a try in 2-3 days (busy with
>  > other stuff).
> 
> Some 1st generation Promise SATA chips generate spurious hotplug events
> which can disrupt normal operation. This has been observed on 20376 and
> 20378 chips. This patch thus disables hotplug support on 1st gen chips
> while leaving it enabled for 2nd gen chips.
> 
> Tested on a 2nd gen SATA300 PCI card and a 1st gen 20378 mainboard chip.
> 
> Kurt, does this work for your 20376?

Yes, works perfectly.

Sorry that I took so long to respond to this.


Kurt

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