From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Adam Kropelin" <akropel1@rochester.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:15:59 +0000
Subject: Re: [TESTERS NEEDED]: Rewritten ESP driver
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Adam Kropelin wrote:
> David Miller wrote:
>> Thanks in advance for testing.
>
> I've given the new driver a run on my U1. A bit of history before the
> results: 2.6.13 (aurora 2.0) esp driver works well on this machine.
> However, 2.6.20 stock does not: it dies with DMA errors after
> (correctly) identifying the disks. (I can get the exact errors, if
> they're useful.)

I attempted to bisect the stock esp driver failure between 2.6.13 and 
2.6.20...and discovered that stock 2.6.13 doesn't work, either. The 
aurora 2.6.13-1.1603sp13 kernel works perfectly every time. I'll try 
2.6.12 and also review the patches in aurora's 2.6.13.

--Adam