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Ondrej Zary committed 44a9b494f20
sata_via: Apply WD workaround only when needed on VT6421 Currently, workaround for broken WD drives is applied always, slowing down all drives. And it has a bug - it's not applied after resume. Apply the workaround only if the error really appears (SErr == 0x1000500). This allows unaffected drives to run at full speed (provided that no affected drive is connected to the controller). Also make sure the workaround is re-applied on resume. Tested on VT6421. As SCR registers access is known to cause problems on VT6420 (and I don't have it to test), keep the workaround applied always on VT6420. Unaffected drive (Hitachi HDS721680PLA380): Before: $ hdparm -t --direct /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing O_DIRECT disk reads: 160 MB in 3.01 seconds = 53.16 MB/sec After: $ hdparm -t --direct /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing O_DIRECT disk reads: 200 MB in 3.01 seconds = 66.47 MB/sec Affected drive (WDC WD5003ABYX-18WERA0): Before: $ hdparm -t --direct /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing O_DIRECT disk reads: 180 MB in 3.02 seconds = 59.51 MB/sec After: $ hdparm -t --direct /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing O_DIRECT disk reads: 156 MB in 3.03 seconds = 51.48 MB/sec $ hdparm -t --direct /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing O_DIRECT disk reads: 180 MB in 3.02 seconds = 59.64 MB/sec The first hdparm is slower because of the error: [ 50.408042] ata5: Incompatible drive: enabling workaround. This slows down transfer rate to ~60 MB/s [ 50.728052] ata5: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) [ 50.744834] ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133 Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>