From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262130AbTJSNRR (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2003 09:17:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262131AbTJSNRR (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2003 09:17:17 -0400 Received: from mail.gondor.com ([212.117.64.182]:9483 "EHLO moria.gondor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262130AbTJSNRO (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2003 09:17:14 -0400 Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 15:17:02 +0200 From: Jan Niehusmann To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Promise IDE patches Message-ID: <20031019131702.GA13067@gondor.com> References: <20030826223158.GA25047@gondor.com> <200308270054.27375.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200308270054.27375.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> X-Request-PGP: http://gondor.com/key.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Bartolomeij, hi Marcelo! Two months ago, I had problems with a >137GB drive on a promise controller. These where fixed by a few patches, and the computer runs fine since then with a patched 2.4.22 kernel. Unfortunately, as far as I can see, none of the patches got applied to 2.4.23-pre7. I know that Alan had a few objections against the patches, and they should be addressed, but as things are now, plain 2.4.23-pre7 would lead to severe data corruption if I used it on my computer. For reference, here is the complete mail where Bartolomeij asked Marcelo to apply the patches: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:54:27AM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > Marcelo can you apply these patches? >=20 > On Wednesday 27 of August 2003 00:31, Jan Niehusmann wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Two weeks ago, I tried two patches against 2.4.21 regarding LBA48 > > support. One limits the size of a drive to 137GB if LBA48 is not > > available. Without this patch, severe data corruption is possible. > > > > http://gondor.com/linux/patch-limit48-2.4.21 > > > > The other one is making LBA48 support work with pdc 20265 controllers. > > > > http://gondor.com/linux/patch-pdc-lba48-2.4.22 > > > > I think they should be candidates for inclusion in 2.4.23, as well as > > a fix for hdparm -I (and other commands going directly to the drive) on > > (some?) promise controllers: > > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dlinux-kernel&m=3D104250818527780&w=3D2 > > > > Jan Alan mentioned problems with patches 1 and 3, but AFAIK nobody had problems with patch 2. Consult the archives for details, it's all been on linux-kernel. Even though I could easily fix 2.4.23 for myself, I'd really like to have the official kernel work without local patches. And I guess an increasing number of people is using drives >137GB, so it can easily hit other people as well. Jan --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ko7OnIUccvEtoGURAqqAAJwNGTLl7QrYvVdrMC+6oahrh4FnZQCfeCzD su4PYWQsJmrR0tx7T4itbGo= =4sxv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL--