Re: Merging libata PATA support into the base kernel

Alan Cox
2006-08-10T13:55:06Z

Ar Iau, 2006-08-10 am 14:20 +0200, ysgrifennodd Jens Axboe:
> You make it sound much worse than it is. Apart for HPA, I'm not aware of
> any setups that require extra treatment. And the amount of reported bugs
> against it are pretty close to zero :-)

There are several variants where you get
- hangs on resume
- HPA mishandling
- CRC errors and usually eventually a hang

HPA thankfully appears to bite only IBM thinkpad users