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Subject: Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:06:49 -0500
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Alan Cox wrote:
>> not one problem but lots---is sufficiently widespread that a Mini HOWTO, 
>> say, would be really welcome and, I'm guessing, widely used.
>>     
>
> We don't see very many libata problems at the distro level and they for
> the most part boil down to
>
> - sata_nv with >4GB of RAM, knowing being worked on, no old IDE driver
> anyway
>   
Is this >4GB or >=4GB? I've seen contradictory reports, and I've got 4GB.

Richard