On September 1993 plus 3580 days Buchan Milne wrote: > <quote who="Ivan Tefalco"> >> Would it be possible for someone to confirm the status of ATA support on >> the Promise PDC202xx chipsets currently found on a wide range of ASUS >> and Gigabyte motherboards. >> >> LM9.0 - no issues, PDC20276 ATA function picked up, drives recognised. >> >> LM9.1 - PDC202xx support broken, no drives recognised on PDC202xx IDE >> controllers, known issue throughout lm9.1 cooker, however passed through >> into final product. > > Of course, if someone with the affected hardware had bothered to find out > exactly what the cause was ... (people without the hardware can't help > much ...)
Uhm...it was reported, both here and on bugzilla, but it still made it through. It was, IIRC, a bug introduced in an -ac patch when splitting the 202xx driver in two (old and new)...it was fixed 2 kernels after release of 9.1, IIRC. Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.
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