>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 1:30 PM >To: Thorsten Leemhuis >Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis; Chuck Ebbert; Jeff Garzik; IDE/ATA >development list; Gaston, Jason D; Alan Cox; >[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.22-rc6] ATA: add a PCI ID for Intel >Santa Rosa PATA controller > >On Wednesday, 4. July 2007, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> >> Maybe Alan or someone from Intel can answer that and thus >tell us how to >> move forward; it would be really nice to get the patch that >started this >> thread (it got posted by Chuck again today) could go into >2.6.22, but I >> assume the time runs away... >> >Jeff is on holiday and Intel doesn't respond at all... > >So, if someone has a ICH5 or ICH7/7-R with a ATA133 captable >HDD... could >you please try the following patch? (Of course, I don't know >if it works,... >It may cause data loss, serve corruption, or damage your >controller/hdd/pc, >so make backups and keep a first-aid kit handy!) > >> > On the other hand, we can leave it, because of a >"off-by-one error" in ata_piix.c, >> > do_pata_set_dmamode, line ~770: >> > [...] >> > >Thanks, > Chr. > >
I quickly tried this patch on an ICH7-R system with an ATA133 Maxtor HD and it did not seem to do anything bad. I see no difference in function or performance with the patch. Jason - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
