On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:25:18 -0500
Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm betting that the ata_piix hardware has some kind of internal pipeline that
> gets confused *sometimes* when a non-512 multiple passes through.  Rarely, 
> though.

It will do this if the FIFO setup is misconfigured.
 
> I wonder if there's something on that device that we could bit-bang to reset 
> it's internal pipelines?

That would cripple performance and just ask for more bizarre bugs.
Firstly I think it makes sense to verify/play with the fifo and prefetch
setup then verify the problem case and see what Intel think.

Alan
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