Silicon Image 3112 h/w docs available
In order to better support open source developers, Silicon Image has been kind enough to give me permission to publicly post the hardware documentation for some of their older SATA chipsets on my docs site, namely the 3112 in this case:
http://gkernel.sourceforge.net/specs/sii/3112A_SiI-DS-0095-B2.pdf.bz2
This documentation will assist developers in maintaining the siimage/sata_sil SATA drivers in the Linux kernel.
So now the 311x joins the ranks of "open hardware". Thanks, SiI!
Jeff
Quoted 6 lines · Jeff Garzik
In order to better support open source developers, Silicon Image has been kind enough to give me permission to publicly post the hardware documentation for some of their older SATA chipsets on my docs site, namely the 3112 in this case:
Quoted 6 lines
http://gkernel.sourceforge.net/specs/sii/3112A_SiI-DS-0095-B2.pdf.bz2
This documentation will assist developers in maintaining the siimage/sata_sil SATA drivers in the Linux kernel.
So now the 311x joins the ranks of "open hardware". Thanks, SiI!
Doesn't seem to contain any more info on drives/controllers affected by the mod15write quirk. I'd like to see firmware revisions added to the blacklist, and not just model numbers anymore. I didn't have that information when I first implemented the blacklist (model numbers only), and it still doesn't seem to be available right now.
I'm rather disappointed that the drive (ST3160023AS) I use has managed to get its way onto the blacklist[1]. I'm using rev 3.05 of that drive with a 3112 (rev 02), and have been for nearly a year at full speed and have never had problems under heavy read/write usage. Setups affected by an uncorrected mod15write bug are corrupted almost immediately, no?
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Eric Wong -- [email protected] -- [email protected]
My understanding is that there's nothing to put in a SI3112 spec regarding this issue.
The card follows the specification correctly. The issue is some drives don't handle this "legal but unexpected" behavior. That issue (in theory) would be for the drive vendors to document.
--eric
Quoted 31 lines · Eric Wong
Quoted 6 lines · Jeff Garzik
In order to better support open source developers, Silicon Image has been kind enough to give me permission to publicly post the hardware documentation for some of their older SATA chipsets on my docs site, namely the 3112 in this case:
Quoted 6 lines
http://gkernel.sourceforge.net/specs/sii/3112A_SiI-DS-0095-B2.pdf.bz2
This documentation will assist developers in maintaining the siimage/sata_sil SATA drivers in the Linux kernel.
So now the 311x joins the ranks of "open hardware". Thanks, SiI!
Doesn't seem to contain any more info on drives/controllers affected by the mod15write quirk. I'd like to see firmware revisions added to the blacklist, and not just model numbers anymore. I didn't have that information when I first implemented the blacklist (model numbers only), and it still doesn't seem to be available right now.
I'm rather disappointed that the drive (ST3160023AS) I use has managed to get its way onto the blacklist[1]. I'm using rev 3.05 of that drive with a 3112 (rev 02), and have been for nearly a year at full speed and have never had problems under heavy read/write usage. Setups affected by an uncorrected mod15write bug are corrupted almost immediately, no?
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Eric Wong -- [email protected] -- [email protected]