Hello, On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 07:34:37PM +0000, Derry Bryson wrote: > I did some testing with a PMP board containing a Sil3726 with firmware > Version 1.0124 and a PMP/Raid board with a JMicron 393 configured as > PMP only. I am connecting to a Sil3124 esata pci controller. > > The Sil3726 board acted the same as the previous Sil3726 board with the 1.0114 > firmware. > > The JMicron board worked much better. It works properly with a stock > kernel and does not fail the IDENTIFY after hotplugging and does > not require retries. It seems to wait for the drive to spin up before > doing anything so it works properly the first time without retries or > hard resets. Interesting, that's the behavior I see w/ my 3726 but all my PMPs are very old, so I guess it has changed since then. A bit too lazy to hook it up to windows machine to check firmware version ATM. :) > The only problem I saw was that it seemed to not work at all a > couple of times if not powered up/connected before booting Linux. > Couldn't see it at all, even after several power cycles and > unplugging/pluggin esata cable. I need to test this more as it is > inconsistent and may have to do with the Sil3124 controller rather > than the JMicron PMP. How did that go? Thanks. -- 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
