I can understand the reluctance to put out a warning before verifying the problem.
I would be willing to reproduce the problem if you have some debugging data you want me to collect. If you are concerned about the data corruption coming from the technique I used (copying the OS installation from a utility boot environment), then it may help you to know the following: 1. that I reproduced the problem 3 or 4 times with the 2.6 sata_promise driver before deciding to try Promise's 2.4 driver; and 2. that I used the same procedure of copying the same source OS from a utility boot environment after switching to the 2.4 kernel and the Promise driver, which resolved the problem. On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 16:20, Mark Hahn wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Joe Harvell wrote: > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=111029414823303&w=2 > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=111054989026053&w=2 > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=111230129320297&w=2 > > all pretty much the same report (by Joe). > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=111214149529209&w=2 > > leads to > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2247734.html > > which is somewhat more interesting, though rather fuzzy. there's something > about the driver deciding not to handle an interrupt (nobody cared), after > which the driver is toast. some claim that this might be dependent on which > disk is attached. > > fundamentally, the problem is to isolate whether the (few) reported problems > are due to peculiarities of the reporting machines or not. > > > > > > You need to add a comment about the SATAII TX2/TX4 boards indicating > > > > users have experienced data corruption with the sata_promise driver and > > > > the SATAII TX4 board. > > personally, I don't think this kind of warning is warranted. it's like > saying that "rm" should have a warning because users have experienced > data deletion when mistyping it... > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Joe Harvell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
