Re: [PATCH] pata_ali: Lots of problems still showing up with small ATAPI DMA

2007-11-28 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:36:15 +0900 Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Cox wrote: Hopefully there is a better long term solution but for now lets favour reliability. I'm getting a lot of reports on pata_ali w/ misc ATAPI commands too. Do you know whether it's a controller problem or

Re: [PATCH] pata_ali: Lots of problems still showing up with small ATAPI DMA

2007-11-28 Thread Tejun Heo
Alan Cox wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:36:15 +0900 Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Cox wrote: Hopefully there is a better long term solution but for now lets favour reliability. I'm getting a lot of reports on pata_ali w/ misc ATAPI commands too. Do you know whether it's a

Re: [PATCH] pata_ali: Lots of problems still showing up with small ATAPI DMA

2007-11-28 Thread Alan Cox
O Does READ_CD work fine via DMA? 2K+ filtering filters most if not all misc commands so usually only sector (2K) aligned READ and WRITEs are done via DMA. Interesting exceptions are READ_CD[_MSF] and READ/WRITE_BUFFER which usually exceed 2K but aren't aligned to 2K. I guess it's about

Re: [PATCH] pata_ali: Lots of problems still showing up with small ATAPI DMA

2007-11-27 Thread Tejun Heo
Alan Cox wrote: Hopefully there is a better long term solution but for now lets favour reliability. I'm getting a lot of reports on pata_ali w/ misc ATAPI commands too. Do you know whether it's a controller problem or drive one? All the reports I got are laptops and I can't really ask them to

Re: [PATCH] pata_ali: Lots of problems still showing up with small ATAPI DMA

2007-11-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan Cox wrote: Hopefully there is a better long term solution but for now lets favour reliability. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] applied #upstream-fixes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-ide in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

[PATCH] pata_ali: Lots of problems still showing up with small ATAPI DMA

2007-11-19 Thread Alan Cox
Hopefully there is a better long term solution but for now lets favour reliability. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla-2.6.24-rc2-mm1/drivers/ata/pata_ali.c linux-2.6.24-rc2-mm1/drivers/ata/pata_ali.c ---