From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Inclusion of patch for Promise SATAII 150 TX4 in mainline 2.6
 kernel?
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:39:00 -0500
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Mark Hahn wrote:
>>has no builtin support for Promise SATAII 150 TX4 yet; a separate patch 
>>(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=110426005503319&q=raw) is 
>>needed to recognize this hardware.
> 
> 
> I had good luck with this patch as well.  I think the SATA-SMART patches
> should go in too, even if they aren't perfect yet...

The Promise SATAII patch went in today.

The SMART patches absolutely -should not- go in.  Certain common hdparm 
commands can cause data corruption rather than produce expected results.

	Jeff