RE: fixed a bug of adma in rhel4u5 with HDS7250SASUN500G.

2008-01-28 Thread Kuan Luo
Robert wrote: > Kuan Luo wrote: > > Robert worte. > >> Kuan, does this patch (using the notifiers to see if the > command is > >> really done) still work if one port on the controller has > >> ADMA disabled > >> because it's in ATAPI mode? I seem to recall Allen Martin > mentioning > >> that

RE: fixed a bug of adma in rhel4u5 with HDS7250SASUN500G.

2008-01-28 Thread Kuan Luo
robert wrote: > Kuan Luo wrote: > > Robert worte. > >> Kuan, does this patch (using the notifiers to see if the > command is > >> really done) still work if one port on the controller has > >> ADMA disabled > >> because it's in ATAPI mode? I seem to recall Allen Martin > mentioning > >> that

Re: fixed a bug of adma in rhel4u5 with HDS7250SASUN500G.

2008-01-28 Thread Robert Hancock
Kuan Luo wrote: Robert worte. Kuan, does this patch (using the notifiers to see if the command is really done) still work if one port on the controller has ADMA disabled because it's in ATAPI mode? I seem to recall Allen Martin mentioning that notifiers wouldn't work in this case. I just

RE: fixed a bug of adma in rhel4u5 with HDS7250SASUN500G.

2008-01-23 Thread Kuan Luo
Robert worte. > > Kuan, does this patch (using the notifiers to see if the command is > really done) still work if one port on the controller has > ADMA disabled > because it's in ATAPI mode? I seem to recall Allen Martin mentioning > that notifiers wouldn't work in this case. > I just tried

Re: sata_nv and 2.6.24 (was Re: fixed a bug of adma in rhel4u5 with HDS7250SASUN500G.)

2008-01-23 Thread Robert Hancock
Jeff Garzik wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Ping... sata_nv status is still a bit open for 2.6.24, and I would like to move us forward a bit. * Kuan's patch... it has been confirmed (and is needed), correct? can someone work up a good patch for 2.6.24? The only one I ever

Re: sata_nv and 2.6.24 (was Re: fixed a bug of adma in rhel4u5 with HDS7250SASUN500G.)

2008-01-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
Robert Hancock wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Ping... sata_nv status is still a bit open for 2.6.24, and I would like to move us forward a bit. * Kuan's patch... it has been confirmed (and is needed), correct? can someone work up a good patch for 2.6.24? The only one I ever received was badly

Re: fixed a bug of adma in rhel4u5 with HDS7250SASUN500G.

2008-01-23 Thread Robert Hancock
Kuan Luo wrote: First thank davide to help to send the attachment. Robert, The patch is to solve the error message "ata1: CPB flags CMD err, flags=0x11" when testing HDS7250SASUN500G in rhel4u5. I tested this hd in 2.6.24-rc7 which needed to remove the mask in blacklist to run the ncq and the s

Re: sata_nv and 2.6.24 (was Re: fixed a bug of adma in rhel4u5 with HDS7250SASUN500G.)

2008-01-23 Thread Robert Hancock
Jeff Garzik wrote: Ping... sata_nv status is still a bit open for 2.6.24, and I would like to move us forward a bit. * Kuan's patch... it has been confirmed (and is needed), correct? can someone work up a good patch for 2.6.24? The only one I ever received was badly word-wrapped, and at t

sata_nv and 2.6.24 (was Re: fixed a bug of adma in rhel4u5 with HDS7250SASUN500G.)

2008-01-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
Robert Hancock wrote: Kuan Luo wrote: Robert hancock wrote: What problem does this resolve? I tested it against the cache flush/NCQ write switching problem we've been trying to solve, and it doesn't look like it fixes that one - if I apply this patch and then remove the udelay(20) in sata_nv.

RE: fixed a bug of adma in rhel4u5 with HDS7250SASUN500G.

2008-01-13 Thread Kuan Luo
Robert Hancock wrote: > As I mentioned, this doesn't seem to resolve the problem we're seeing > with rapidly intermixed NCQ commands and cache flushes (at > least, if I > take out the arbitrary 20usec delay from the driver and add > this patch, > the problem still shows up). It could be a simi

Re: fixed a bug of adma in rhel4u5 with HDS7250SASUN500G.

2008-01-13 Thread Robert Hancock
Kuan Luo wrote: Robert hancock wrote: What problem does this resolve? I tested it against the cache flush/NCQ write switching problem we've been trying to solve, and it doesn't look like it fixes that one - if I apply this patch and then remove the udelay(20) in sata_nv.c that I added which

RE: fixed a bug of adma in rhel4u5 with HDS7250SASUN500G.

2008-01-13 Thread Kuan Luo
Robert hancock wrote: > What problem does this resolve? I tested it against the cache > flush/NCQ > write switching problem we've been trying to solve, and it > doesn't look > like it fixes that one - if I apply this patch and then remove the > udelay(20) in sata_nv.c that I added which preven

Re: fixed a bug of adma in rhel4u5 with HDS7250SASUN500G.

2008-01-11 Thread Robert Hancock
Kuan Luo wrote: hi robert, I have fixed a bug in rhel4u5 2.6.9-55 when running adma mode with HDS7250SASUN500G. Could you check this code and if no problem, then help me to submit to the newest kernel. What problem does this resolve? I tested it against the cache flush/NCQ wr