Re: Errors on 2th ide channel of promise ultra100 tx2

Erik Andersen
2004-02-27T22:45:54Z

On Fri Feb 27, 2004 at 09:14:23PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> ide-disk.c sends WIN_READ_NATIVE_MAX_{EXT} without checking
> if HPA feature set is supported, this is fixed in 2.6.x for a long time.
>
> We need 2.4<->2.6 IDE sync monkey... a really smart one...

Dunno if I qualify as sufficiently 'really smart' enough but the
last time I put in the considerable effort needed to re-sync the
2.4 and 2.6 IDE layers, and merge in the useful -ac bits that
never made it into mainstream, nothing whatsoever came of my
efforts...

My 2.4.x patches are in daily use by a large group of people
and they work fine, for what it is worth. My IDE merging
patches are the following:

http://codepoet.org/kernel/

020_ide_layer_2.4.22-ac4.bz2
021_ide_geom_hpa_capacity64.bz2
022-extra-ide-drives.bz2
023-2.4.25-libata1.patch.bz2
024_libata-spurious2.diff.bz2
025-cenatek.patch.bz2
026-medley-softraid.patch.bz2

The 021_ide_geom_hpa_capacity64.bz2 is my original work, the
others are the result of skimming patches from the list and
merging/updating them as needed to sync with the other patches
and keep them current.

-Erik

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