SATA write woes

[Søren Schmidt]

Matt Dawson wrote:
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> On Friday 6 February 2004 4:21 pm, Søren Schmidt wrote:
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>>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...
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> 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 :(


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-Søren