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    sata_promise: ASIC PRD table bug workaround, take 2 · b9ccd4a9
    Mikael Pettersson authored
    Second-generation Promise SATA controllers have an ASIC bug
    which can trigger if the last PRD entry is larger than 164 bytes,
    resulting in intermittent errors and possible data corruption.
    
    Work around this by replacing calls to ata_qc_prep() with a
    private version that fills the PRD, checks the size of the
    last entry, and if necessary splits it to avoid the bug.
    Also reduce sg_tablesize by 1 to accommodate the new entry.
    
    Tested on the second-generation SATA300 TX4 and SATA300 TX2plus,
    and the first-generation PDC20378.
    
    Thanks to Alexander Sabourenkov for verifying the bug by
    studying the vendor driver, and for writing the initial patch
    upon which this one is based.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
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    Changes since previous version:
    * use new PDC_MAX_PRD constant to initialise sg_tablesize
    
     drivers/ata/sata_promise.c |   87 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
     1 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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