From: Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Resch <jr@xor.at>
Subject: Re: Inclusion of patch for Promise SATAII 150 TX4 in mainline 2.6 kernel?
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 08:19:00 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42083DB4.7050408@wasp.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4207DFF4.8010208@pobox.com>
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Mark Hahn wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
In addition to the bug Andy Warner mentioned previously about the passthrough extensions causing
oopses on SMP machines. For basic use on UP they are fine, I have been beating on the for months
now, but they still have holes big enough to shoot through if you are not careful.
Brad
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-06 13:39 Inclusion of patch for Promise SATAII 150 TX4 in mainline 2.6 kernel? Johannes Resch
2005-02-07 21:03 ` Mark Hahn
2005-02-07 21:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-08 4:19 ` Brad Campbell [this message]
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