Dave Howorth wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >>> Since we don't yet know whether a recent kernel fixes my sil problem and >>> if it does we don't have any idea of a particular patch, that suggests >>> the strategy would be bisection, which probably involves more compiles >>> than I'm up for. >> If sil shows the problem, I'll provide debug patches so that you'll >> only need to build libata and sata_via. > > OK, I fixed my backup system and I feel a bit more relaxed now, so I did > a quick test. I borrowed the Sil 3512-based card again and ran it with > Knoppix and also with the SUSE 2.6.37 kernel. Neither of them indicated > any errors with the drive so I suppose that some change between 2.6.32 > and 2.6.37 has already fixed whatever my problem was with that > controller. One less thing to worry about. > > I haven't got around to doing any of the other things I mentioned yet :( Hmm, Things are not quite so clear cut. Yesterday, with the Sil card still in the system, I happened to reboot the original unpatched 2.6.32 kernel and unfortunately everything worked perfectly! So there must be some other factor involved. Most likely is that after running the main batch of tests I have removed an old PATA drive from the system, which was connected to the mainboard. It's also theoretically possible of course that every other time I tested the system I systematically misaligned a SATA cable when running the old kernel or somesuch. Anyway, I no longer have a failing test case for the Sil card. Since I need to plug my new Via card back in anyway, I'll rerun the old kernel with that just to see whether it still shows the problem when the PATA drive is not in the system. Cheers, Dave PS I guess since I haven't heard from you recently, it might be appropriate to wish you Happy New Year! -- 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
