Re: libata question

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 03:45 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 00:33 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
>>>> Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>>>>> Should hotplug work with Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7
>>>>> Family) chipset? I am trying kernel 2.6.17.7
>> Ah.. I should have spotted this earlier.  2.6.17.7 doesn't contain 
>> updated EH and doesn't support any of new features including 
>> hot/warmplug.  Please try 2.6.18-rc3.
> 
> OK. But I think there are issues with 2.6.18 generally. But I can try it
> to see if this makes this better.

If you're uncomfortable with -rcX, you can try libata-tj-stable patch. 
It contains most of new stuff.

http://home-tj.org/files/libata-tj-stable/libata-tj-2.6.17.4-20060710.tar.bz2

>>> I bet the driver does the right thing. The trick is knowing what that is
>>> supposed to be. And how to use the various commands on files in /sys at
>>> the correct time and in the correct order.
>> Really, it's not that complicated.
> 
> Once you know what it is you need to do.

I tried hard to make things just work.  If you find things unnecessarily 
complicated, please let me know.

Good luck.

-- 
tejun