From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: add support for READ/WRITE LONG Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:40:19 -0400 Message-ID: <45F5E4E3.5030709@rtr.ca> References: <3aac340703102322p362998b9labedc13503702d2b@mail.gmail.com> <45F56800.3040104@rtr.ca> <3aac340703121003l43685599t8dbffe6247879a91@mail.gmail.com> <45F5A523.1080500@rtr.ca> <20070312221351.6c3db1fa@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <45F5D2DA.20407@rtr.ca> <20070313000813.183a1364@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:4179 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752330AbXCLXkV (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:40:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070313000813.183a1364@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Jeff Garzik , Vitaliyi , Tejun Heo , IDE/ATA development list Alan Cox wrote: > > Umm... someone reported originally getting problems with R/W LONG and PIIX > but not AHCI and we discussed whether we might need to turn the > prefetch/postwrite off for it. Would have been about October last year. Ah, well, yes, they would have problems unless my patch had been applied. And not only on ata_piix. > If it works ok then I'll just cross it off the list It works for me, on a variety of hardware. Cheers