Hello, On 02/07/2010 01:51 PM, Mark Lord wrote: > Tim Small wrote: >> Mark Lord wrote: >>> My theory on the problem when I first had it here, was that doing >>> a FLUSH_CACHE[_EXT] before any PIO command (eg. SMART) should prevent >>> the problem. This was never explored further (by me or others). >>> >> >> Would using "option libata force=pio4" be a simple way to start to test >> this hypothesis? > .. > > Yup. If the hypothesis is FALSE, then you'll still see trouble. > Otherwise, it *might* be correct. ;) But that would be a big *might*. The effect of PIO is a bit too drastic to indicate postivity (as opposed to ruling out stuff). Anyways, yeap, no harm in trying. -- tejun -- 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
