From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262181AbVBQBHH (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:07:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262180AbVBQBHG (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:07:06 -0500 Received: from centaur.culm.net ([83.16.203.166]:34323 "EHLO centaur.culm.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262178AbVBQBGu convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:06:50 -0500 From: Witold Krecicki To: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: sil_blacklist - are all those entries necessary? Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 02:05:48 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <200502151706.04846.adasi@kernel.pl> <200502170143.00817.adasi@kernel.pl> <4213EC86.9020108@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <4213EC86.9020108@pobox.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502170205.48200.adasi@kernel.pl> X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) X-Scan-Signature: fe61db08444535778152bfa43c1083d1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dnia czwartek 17 luty 2005 01:59, napisa³e¶: > > is there ANY way to test if this hack is necessary for specific model of > > a disk? > > You need a bus analyzer, and need to test different sizes of FIS's.  If > all possible sizes (2048 combinations) work on your device, the > blacklist entry is not needed. is there any software bus analyzer? And if so, is there Testing-different-sizes-of-FIS's-for-dummies anywhere ? -- Witold Krêcicki (adasi) adasi [at] culm.net GPG key: 7AE20871 http://www.culm.net