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Date:      Fri, 06 Feb 2004 17:21:48 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk>
To:        Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SATA write woes
Message-ID:  <4023BF1C.6020008@DeepCore.dk>
In-Reply-To: <4023A65E.5060602@mitre.org>
References:  <4022B03B.8070205@mitre.org> <4022B5EF.4030807@DeepCore.dk> <4023A65E.5060602@mitre.org>

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Jason Andresen wrote:
> Søren Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> Yes, this is a "feature" of the broken silicon in the Sii3112 chip...
> 
> 
> Is there a workaround?

Those timeouts and retries is the workaround, it took quite a bit of 
inginuity to not have it lockup the system solid each time it wedges...

If you saw the errata docs for this piece of crap you wouldn't trust 
your data to it :)

-- 
-Søren



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