From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 7 07:57:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5597316A4CE for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 07:57:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-53484.0x50a6c9a6.abnxx9.customer.tele.dk [80.166.201.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91C0C43D1D for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 07:57:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Received: from DeepCore.dk (sos.deepcore.dk [194.192.25.130]) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i17FrqCm085576; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 16:53:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Message-ID: <40250AF7.3010804@DeepCore.dk> Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 16:57:43 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040126 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Dawson References: <4022B03B.8070205@mitre.org> <4023A65E.5060602@mitre.org> <4023BF1C.6020008@DeepCore.dk> <200402071535.30390.matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200402071535.30390.matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-mail-scanned: by DeepCore Virus & Spam killer v1.3 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 05:08:38 -0800 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA write woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 15:57:29 -0000 Matt Dawson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 6 February 2004 4:21 pm, Søren Schmidt wrote: > >>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... > > > FWIW, Sil controllers do the same thing on other platforms. Try installing the > medley control software on a windoze box and watch that log file grow... ;o) Yeah, its broken beyond repair, I dont understand why the keep shipping that badly broken silicon. But then again the same company gave the world the CMD640, and changing their name doesn't make us forget :). However I do understand why they are so reluctant to hand out docs, it is an embarrasing read :) So I guess this is what we get from letting economists run companies instead of engineers. Two decades ago it was all about getting the best technical solution to a problem, now its all about getting the biggest profit for the shareholders :( -- -Søren