Re: SOLVED - Testing IDE-TCQ and Taskfile - doesn't work nicely:)

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-06-25 01:08:13 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
> wrote in message <Pine.SOL.4.30.0306250107180.17106-100000@mion.elka.pw.edu.pl>:
> > On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2003-06-24 15:44:36 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
> > > wrote in message <Pine.SOL.4.30.0306241543050.23584-100000@mion.elka.pw.edu.pl>:
> > >
> > > > Corrected patch below...
> > >
> > > Taking this 2nd IDE patch, my boot-up looks as shown below. I still have
> >
> > Thanks for testing, it looks okay now.
> >
> > > to test the taskfile thing again, but I cannot find my girlfriends
> > > digital camera right now:)
>
> Found the cam, downloaded any old pics, recompiled with taskfile I/O and
> - nothing. 2.5.73 + your second IDE patch do work flawlessly on my old
> box. The "clack     clack    clack" went away is if had never been
> there...

:-)

> So - thanks a lot for looking at my problem. Please feed your patch to
> Linus as it seems to actually solve (at least my) problems.
>
> However, allow me to ask why this occured never bevore (for other
> people)? Do they all have only one drive? Does nobody use TCQ? Nobody
> with old hardware (though, your patch hasn't touched the core PIIX
> parts...)?

nobody is stupid^H^Hbrave enough to use TCQ ;-)

Thanks,
--
Bartlomiej

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