From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: pdc20575 and driver 1.04 Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 13:10:49 -0400 Message-ID: <4471F099.4060109@pobox.com> References: <44718312.9090900@ipom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:50327 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751002AbWEVRKx (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 13:10:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <44718312.9090900@ipom.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Phil Dibowitz Cc: viet@mandriva.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Phil Dibowitz wrote: > jgarzik@pobox.com wrote: >> viet@mandriva.com wrote: >>> Hi Jeff, >>> >>> We've briefly met at Deauville while you were working with mandriva >>> I hope everything is fine with you - I myself have just been laid >> off, just about \ >>> six years after joining mandrake ... >>> Anyway, back to business. >>> I have a Promise sataII TX2+ cards, with a pdc 20575. >>> >>> I have just tried stock 2.6.17-rc4 and applied >>> 2.6.17-rc4-git2-libata1.patch.bz2 >>> I am only detecting the two sata lines. >>> the motherboard is smp, and has pdc20265 onboard. there are 4 drives >> attached to \ >>> the TX2+ (two sata, two pata) >>> If I am not mistaken, driver version 1.04 is the latest one you have > ? >> Promise PATA-on-SATA-cards support lives in >> libata-dev.git#promise-sata-pata, until someone cleans it up. >> >> This is not found in 2.6.17-rc4 nor 2.6.17-rc4-git2-libata1. It is >> found in Andrew Morton's -mm tree, though. > > It's not in 2.6.17-rc4-git2-libata1? No. -libata1 only contains #upstream, not other useful for-testing changes such as #promise-sata-pata. > Did you remove that support from the libata patches at > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/ ? > > 2.6.15-libata1.patch added Promise PATA-on-SATA for my PC20378 (see my > email from earlier today)... > > In fact, back on 09/09/05, Matt (Reuther?) pointed me to your patches > (and CC'd the list) for exactly that reason: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=112629381132249&w=2 > > I'm confused... Just simply that 2.6.17-rc4-git2-libata1 patch didn't include "other stuff", unlike the other patches. Jeff