Re: [PATCH 2.6.19 1/3] sata_promise: PHYMODE4 fixup

2006-12-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
Mikael Pettersson wrote: This patch adds code to fix up the PHYMODE4 "align timing" register value on second-generation Promise SATA chips. Failure to correct this value on non-x86 machines makes drive detection prone to failure due to timeouts. (I've observed about 50% detection failure rates on

[PATCH 2.6.19 1/3] sata_promise: PHYMODE4 fixup

2006-12-01 Thread Mikael Pettersson
This patch adds code to fix up the PHYMODE4 "align timing" register value on second-generation Promise SATA chips. Failure to correct this value on non-x86 machines makes drive detection prone to failure due to timeouts. (I've observed about 50% detection failure rates on SPARC64.) The HW boots wi