From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263042AbTH0DOm (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 23:14:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263060AbTH0DOl (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 23:14:41 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:47768 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263042AbTH0DOi (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 23:14:38 -0400 Message-ID: <3F4C2210.6050404@pobox.com> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 23:14:24 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Urbanik CC: andersen@codepoet.org, linux-kernel Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd References: <20030722184532.GA2321@codepoet.org> <20030722185443.GB6004@gtf.org> <20030722190705.GA2500@codepoet.org> <20030722205629.GA27179@gtf.org> <20030722213926.GA4295@codepoet.org> <3F4C1F09.846A83EF@vtc.edu.hk> In-Reply-To: <3F4C1F09.846A83EF@vtc.edu.hk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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