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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Rumi Szabolcs <rumi_ml@rtfm.hu>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Marvell PATA-SATA bridge meets 2.4.x
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 14:07:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <404CEEAF.5020608@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040308172839.17178753.rumi_ml@rtfm.hu>

Rumi Szabolcs wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 19:55:00 -0800
> Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Rumi Szabolcs wrote:
>>
>>>As it can be seen below, a native SATA150 drive is connected
>>>to a SATA port implemented using that Marvell chip hooked up
>>>to the ICH4's parallel ATA133 port and this way the drive is
>>>only recognized (and used) as UDMA33:
>>>
>>>hdc: 312581808 sectors (160042 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(33)
>>>
>>>As far as I can remember someone (Jeff Garzik?) suspected the
>>>SATA cable not being recognized as a 80-conductor thus >=UDMA66
>>>capable cable. Then it was told that there is a fix underway that
>>>will be included in the 2.4.23 kernel. The above snippet shows
>>>that the 2.4.25 kernel still has this problem. Any comments?
>>
>>You want to use a 2.6 kernel and talk to Bart, and Jeff about this...
> 
> 
> Well, I don't really want a 2.6 kernel on that machine (yet) because
> in my opinion it is not stable enough for a production system.

What problems are you having?

> 
> Would it be hard to fix that in 2.4?

Dunno.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-08 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-05 22:16 Marvell PATA-SATA bridge meets 2.4.x Rumi Szabolcs
2004-03-07  3:55 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-03-08 16:28   ` Rumi Szabolcs
2004-03-08 22:07     ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2004-03-08 23:53       ` Rumi Szabolcs
2004-03-09  4:06         ` Mike Fedyk
2004-03-11  7:20   ` Andre Hedrick

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