Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, John Heil wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 00:25:28 +0000 (GMT)
> > From: Alan Cox <[e-mail]>
> > To: Linus Torvalds <[e-mail]>
> > Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
> > Subject: Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch
> > 
> > > what the bug is, and whether there is some other work-around, and whether
> > > it is 100% certain that it is just those two controllers (maybe the other
> > > ones are buggy too, but the 2.2.x tests basically cured their symptoms too
> > > and peopl ehaven't reported them because they are "fixed").
> > 
> > I've not seen reports on the later chips. If they had been buggy and then 
> > fixed I'd have expected much unhappy ranting before the change
> 
> The "fix" was an hdparm command like hdparm -X66 -m16c1d1 /dev/hda.
> Which I set for my VIA 686a on a Tyan mobo w a 1G Athlon.

Careful. It may be that your fix just avoids the corruption because the
other changes make it ok - like the 16-sector multi-count thing maybe
hides a problem that might still exist - it just changes the "normal"
timing so that you won't ever see it in practice any more.

These kinds of magic interactions is why I'm not at all happy about driver
changes until people really know what it was that caused it, and _know_
that it's gone.

Anyway, for you the problem apparently happened even on a 686a, but just
the 586 series. Correct?

			Linus