From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Howorth Subject: Re: sata_via bus errors fixed? Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:09:43 +0000 Message-ID: <4D4BEC87.9090006@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> References: <4D3DA387.8080301@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> <20110124170432.GH27510@htj.dyndns.org> <4D3EA771.3070206@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> <20110125105049.GQ27510@htj.dyndns.org> <4D3FF0D9.5040006@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> <20110126101119.GE12520@htj.dyndns.org> <4D4693DB.4070009@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> <20110131105322.GE7459@htj.dyndns.org> <4D46A8D3.3000807@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> <20110131132430.GH7459@htj.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ppsw-41.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.141]:45644 "EHLO ppsw-41.csi.cam.ac.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751046Ab1BDMJp (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2011 07:09:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20110131132430.GH7459@htj.dyndns.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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 :( Cheers, Dave