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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Nick Urbanik <nicku@vtc.edu.hk>
Cc: andersen@codepoet.org, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 23:14:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F4C2210.6050404@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F4C1F09.846A83EF@vtc.edu.hk>

Nick Urbanik wrote:
> Dear Erik and Jeff,
> 
> Did you make any progress here or were you discouraged by the resulting
> flamewar?

hehe... flamewars rarely discourage me :)


> Does this work in 2.4.x?  I have a Tyan Trinity i875P S5101 which I want to
> use the parallel IDE ports on.  They are connected to a PDC20378.  Any
> patches that you think would be reliable?  Or should I take the opportunity
> to return this to the vendor and buy an Intel S845WD1-E instead?

Well, the GPL'd Promise driver that was posted will work.

For the future, I'm currently whipping the libata internals into shape 
so that Promise may be supported.  Promise hardware supports native 
command queueing, a lot like many SCSI adapters.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-27  3:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-22 18:45 Promise SATA driver GPL'd Erik Andersen
2003-07-22 18:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-22 19:07   ` Erik Andersen
2003-07-22 19:39     ` Samuel Flory
2003-07-22 20:56     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-22 21:39       ` Erik Andersen
2003-07-22 23:25         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-27  3:01         ` Nick Urbanik
2003-08-27  3:14           ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-08-27  9:00             ` Matthias Andree
2003-08-27 11:51               ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-22 20:57     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-23 13:20     ` Mark Watts
2003-07-23  1:59 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23  2:38   ` Shawn
2003-07-23 10:32   ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 18:58     ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-24 11:22       ` Matthias Andree
2003-08-13 13:34     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-13 14:24       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-15 10:17         ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-25  3:44 ` Milan Roubal
2003-07-23  5:12 Adam J. Richter
2003-07-23  5:28 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23  9:08   ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-23 10:12     ` Matthias Andree
2003-07-23 10:21       ` Wichert Akkerman
2003-07-23 11:47         ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 11:54           ` Wichert Akkerman
2003-07-23 10:37       ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-23 10:29     ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 10:51       ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-23 11:43         ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 12:17           ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-23 12:32           ` Martin Diehl
2003-07-23 12:57             ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 19:08               ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 19:19                 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 19:33                   ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 19:46                   ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 20:59                 ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-23 22:22                   ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 22:40                     ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-23 22:35                       ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 23:02                         ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-23 23:08                           ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 23:33                             ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-23 23:45                               ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-24  0:14                                 ` dacin
2003-07-24  0:23                                   ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-24  0:21                     ` David Schwartz
2003-07-24  0:21                       ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-24 13:23                       ` Jesse Pollard
2003-07-24 14:01                         ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-24 18:37                         ` David Schwartz
2003-07-23 22:32                   ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 22:46                     ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-23 23:13                       ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-23 10:40   ` Adam Sampson

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