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Subject: Re: FYI: RAID5 unusably unstable through 2.6.14
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Iau, 2006-01-19 at 10:59 -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> But the card is a total slug unless the host does 32-bit PIO to/from it.
> Do we have that capability in libata yet?

Very very easy to sort out. Just need a ->pio_xfer method set. Would
then eliminate some of the core driver flags and let us do vlb sync for
legacy hw