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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] pata_oldpiix: enable parallel scan
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:06:08 +0200
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Alan Cox wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:03:34 +0200
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH] pata_oldpiix: enable parallel scan
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
> 
> Have you tested this. When I talked with Intel people about parallel
> scanning nobody in Intel I could find could answer whether it was safe on
> the ancient PIIX versions.

No, it wasn't tested on the real hardware.

I think it should be in libata-dev or -mm/-next for rather long time..