Silicon Image contributed a patch which should help some of the situations
that users were seeing. If you are having problems with sata_sil, please do
try out this patch.
I'm concerned that the sata_sil blacklist has been growing beyond the older
Seagate drives which definitely had buggy firmware; concerned that the
Mod15Write fix was simply "fixing" the problem addressed by this patch,
simply by hiding the problem behind slow performance. [note: the only way to
really know for sure is with ATA bus traces]
Hello, Jeff!
Yes, you are right that the list grew too much.
I, for example, have a sil 3112 controller that made problems (mod15) in
the past (crash on big tranfers). But I upgraded the BIOS (and it shows me
that even sil firmware was updated) and the problem disappeard.
So, I'll be glad to test this patch, but I can't because now it works very
good (I manualy remove the disks from blaklist because they have a match
in the list).
Thanks goes to Silicon Image people that, finally, they release a patch to
fix this problem.
My motherboard is Intel.
Thanks Jeff.
On platforms where the SiI BIOS isn't executed (non-x86), this patch is
probably more critical. On x86, it is purported to only be needed on a
single motherboard.
Test results (to [email protected]) would be appreciated,
particularly from users with newer Seagate drives.
Finally, there are also a few reports of problems of "screaming interrupts"
on configurations with SiI 311x + Seagate NCQ drives. This is a separate
problem, and I haven't looked into it yet.
Jeff
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