From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964998AbWFTIF0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 04:05:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965149AbWFTIF0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 04:05:26 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:58275 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964998AbWFTIFY (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 04:05:24 -0400 Subject: RE: Wish for 2006 to Alan Cox and Jeff Garzik: A functional Driver for PDC202XX From: Alan Cox To: Erik@echohome.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:20:27 +0100 Message-Id: <1150791627.11062.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ar Llu, 2006-06-19 am 18:18 -0400, ysgrifennodd Erik Ohrnberger: > Regardless, count me as another one of the interested parties for a cure. > I've read the thread, and will prepare two current kernels, one using the > PDC202XX_NEW and one using the PDC202XX_OLD configuration options. I'm > hoping that the PDC202XX_OLD will also resolve this issue. Bartlomiej is the old IDE layer maintainer. I would direct any enquiries to him about those drivers. > Any further advice on how to work around this would be greatly appreciated. 2.6.17 with the libata pata patch from http://zeniv.linux.org.uk/~alan/IDE has a Promise driver for the PDC 20268 and higher that was written by Albert Lee. There is also a test driver for the older chips (20265 etc). To try that build 2.6.17 with the patch and then say "N" to CONFIG_IDE, "Y" to the SATA options under SCSI and the right controller. It will move your disks to /dev/sda /dev/sdb etc as it uses the SCSI layer. Alan