[this thread is regarding sata_inic162x, misplaced reply]

Bob Stewart wrote:
> There is still something else bad going on in your driver.  I've tried
> everything I can think of (timing changes, flushes, and whatnot)
> but I still get random timeouts and random results from md5sum
> on large files.  Even in the case where I don't get a timeout on a large
> iso file, the md5sum is still random.  Strangely enough, though, 
> the files may be good on-disk, since totem seems to play the DVD.iso
> that I'm testing with without a problem.  I'm using debian with a 2.6.19.2
> kernel.

Yeap, I'm aware of the problem.  That's why the driver is marked HIGHLY
EXPERIMENTAL.  Maybe I should change it to broken.  :-(  Anyways, one of
the known problems is mishandling of LBA48 commands which is cause of
timeouts and wrong md5sums on large disks.  I just couldn't find any
time to work on it in recent weeks.  Please be patient a bit.  I'll get
back to sata_ini162x in a few days.

-- 
tejun
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