On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 01:20:13PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On 06/06/2007 12:05 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > FYI to all --
> >
> > As a reminder. the Promise hardware programs registers when it receives
> > a SET FEATURES - XFER MODE.
> >
> > If data transfer is occurring on OTHER ports at the time this is issued,
> > then data corruption is guaranteed to occur. Polling will not fix this
> > problem -- all ports need to be inactive, when a SET FEATURES - XFER
> > MODE command is issued for any port.
> So is this patch OK but yet more work needs to be done, or does
> this patch cause new problems?
Causes no /new/ problems... :) The existing problem described above
remains.
Jeff
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