From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julian Calaby Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 10:37:19 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] sparc64: sparc64_defconfig: convert to use libata PATA drivers Message-Id: List-Id: References: <1467030232-10027-1-git-send-email-b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> In-Reply-To: <1467030232-10027-1-git-send-email-b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Hi Meelis, On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 8:27 PM, Meelis Roos wrote: >> The Ultra 5 uses a CMD64x controller. >> >> That said, last time I tried to get that machine working, I couldn't >> partition the disk due to bugs in that driver. > > Yes, Ultra 5 uses CMD64x. This has worked well for me on U5 for ages. > The debug messages have also been there as long as I remember. The > controller is limited to 128GiB disks in DMA mode so I have used up to > 120G disks only and have not tried any bigger ones. Oh, the last time I tried, I had trouble partitioning the disk due to it seemingly not writing beyond the first sector. I'll have to try again. Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@gmail.com Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/