Re: Western Digital WD360GD SATA disk on -CURRENT

From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus_at_marcuscom.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 01:49:14 -0500
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 23:56, Will Andrews wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ever since I found the set of commits which broke probing this
> disk on/about September 1, I have attempted to boot a JPSNAP
> about once a week.  Up to this day, on which I tried 5.2-BETA
> (official ISO), it has never again probed this drive correctly.
> 
> I'm using it with a:
> 
> atapci1_at_pci2:6:0:       class=0x018000 card=0x31121095 chip=0x31121095 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
>     vendor   = 'Silicon Image Inc (Was: CMD Technology Inc)'
>     device   = 'SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller'
>     class    = mass storage
> 
> (note, no RAID has been configured, only one disk is attached)
> 
> Has anyone had better luck?  Thanks.

I have a host controller with the same chipset.  I was having frequent
data corruption problems, so I asked about it on current_at_ a few days
ago.  so_at_ offered a patch (which has now been comitted), but it didn't
help.  Bottom line, he said to get a Promise SATA card.  Since I don't
want to mess around with this anymore, I went to Amazon, and ordered
one.  In looking at this output, I doubt the patch would even affect you
since you're using the new hardware revision.

For more details, check the archives for current_at_ for a thread with the
subject, "Recent ATA drivers giving problems with SATA."

Joe

> 
> Regards,
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