Re: Minors remaining in Major 10 ??

2001-01-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > > > > > HPA, > > > > > > > > Thoughts on granting all b

Re: Minors remaining in Major 10 ??

2001-01-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > HPA, > > > > Thoughts on granting all block subsystems a general access misc-char minor > > to do special service access that can not be down to a given device if it > > is open.

Re: [preview] Latest AMD & VIA IDE drivers with UDMA100 support

2001-01-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
> > >> > > >> Just to be clear - I am NOT getting any errors when I switch back to > > >> the 2.2.17 kernel (debian standard) - with a 2.4.0 kernel they occur > > >> every few minutes when there is significant disk activity. > > > >

Minors remaining in Major 10 ??

2001-01-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
force the migration to find the desired major/minor is painful. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-19 Thread Andre Hedrick
augan.com > > > I do not know of _any_ disk controllers that let you map the controller > > buffers over PCI. Which means that with current hardware, you have to > > assume that the disk is the initiator of the PCI-PCI DMA requests. Agreed? Err, first-party DMA devices do this,

RE: [PATCH] PCI-Devices and ServerWorks chipset (fwd)

2001-01-18 Thread Andre Hedrick
on is now the key now that Revolution is established. Regards, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:44:00 -0800 From: Kim To: Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Subject: RE: [PATCH] PCI-Devices and ServerWorks chipset (fwd)

Re: [PATCH] PCI-Devices and ServerWorks chipset

2001-01-18 Thread Andre Hedrick
y they sell CPU's fpr $100's and sell chipsets at pennies. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH] PCI-Devices and ServerWorks chipset

2001-01-18 Thread Andre Hedrick
I'm not going to sign any NDA anytime soon, so > I haven't asked them for details. I recall someone writing here it's > restrictive, indeed. > > > The only people who have ever got info out of serverworks are the lm78 > > guys and (i think) andre hedrick. I can

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-18 Thread Andre Hedrick
n't have any > data on the disk. It can do that without a file system also ;-) Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
ue. It does not care about the OS, it is doing the direct access that some would call bit-bangging in the old days. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development Device: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM20.4 Serial Number: 18456110 : 7f51 6686 cbbf bd2d bf2b 1053 e683 1428 .Qf-.+.S...( 0010: d813

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Tim Fletcher wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > Cute. Can it be run on say a swap partition? > > > > maybe but why? > > Because it stores no data, hence the wiping out of it is no problem? Well that is useless test them because you c

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > Hi! > > Cute. Can it be run on say a swap partition? maybe but why? Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ple

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
it fixes the behavior? > > By the way, what motherboard is this? > > Andre: Thanks for sending this to me, this is the case I was looking for > - true data corruption on 2.2 kernel. Now I hope my new driver fixes > this. > > Vojtech > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at

Re: int. assignment on SMP + ServerWorks chipset

2001-01-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
without problem. > For completness, made changes are attached. > > Could anybody help? > > Petr > > --- > Petr Matula[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.fi.muni.cz/~pem > -

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
VGA compatible controller: NVidia/SGS Thomson Riva 128 (rev 16). > Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 5. Master > Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1. > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe400 [0xe400]. > Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe600

Re: ServerWorks IDE in 2.4.0-ac4

2001-01-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
-CONFIG_IDE=m +CONFIG_IDE=y Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: IDE not fully found (2.4.0)

2001-01-15 Thread Andre Hedrick
> the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: HP Pavilion 8290 HANGS on boot 2.4/2.4-test9

2001-01-13 Thread Andre Hedrick
ardware. Only if the BIOS with INT13 calls are performing DMA stuff until the OS takes over could this be a player. If you disable DMA in the BIOS does that help? Regards, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-13 Thread Andre Hedrick
> __setup("force_dma") ... > > So those who want to play fast can > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedr

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
On 12 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Well that "experimental patch" is designed to get out of the dreaded > >"DMA Timeout Hang" or deadlock that is most

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > It works perfectly and exactly as it is defined to work by the rules. > > Getting the rules correct == 'the concept of "working"'. > > Don&

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > It works perfectly and exactly as it is defined to work by the rules. > > Getting the rules correct == 'the concept of "working"'. > > Don&

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > I told you that I have the new code that is scheduled for 2.5 certified on > > analizers to be technically correct as it relates to the "state diagrams" &

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
it, and _know_ > that it's gone. Linus I know how the driver is to work and how it behaves in non-multimodes, but I am not sure that even Mark Lord could tells you or me about the true nature of the current multimode with various chipsets. Sheesh some of them are now documenting that special bits must be set to do 32-bit word access on the dataport. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > Scratch that patch it has 2 typos that are in amd74xx.c > > > > will do it again.. > > I will scratch your new patch too. > > I want t

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
Scratch that patch it has 2 typos that are in amd74xx.c will do it again.. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
rrect, but function :-(( Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch.bz2

Re: IDE DMA problems on 2.4.0 with vt82c686a driver

2001-01-11 Thread Andre Hedrick
cassion are probably fine (off to mark calender, a positive comment about ATA) > ATA100 is another testimony to the fact that pigs can be made to fly given > sufficient thrust (to borrow an RFC) But the price to pay is SCSI noise in ATA devices, or was that pig lips flapping in the breeze...?

Re: [PATCH] improved IDE OnStream support for linux 2.4

2001-01-11 Thread Andre Hedrick
Its cool with me... On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote: > Hi guys, > > Below is a patch to fix some problems in the OnStream tape drive support > in ide-tape.c. > > - It implements Early Warning (e.g. retuns ENOSPC) for reaching end-of-tape. > This fixes a real nasty problem when w

AMD760/765 DDR Athlon testers needed....

2001-01-11 Thread Andre Hedrick
Calling AMD Geeks^H^H^H^H^HUsers, I have one of these DDR boxes from AMD with the AMD760/765 cores, if you have one please let me know if you wnat to test this new code? It is only ATA66 limited and the DOCS I have do not have the ATA100 timings. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development

Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18pre21 ide-disk.c for OB800

2001-01-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
wanting me to create a struct or bit mask to carry the the device settings/mode that is set before an APM/ACPI event happens. Regardless that the answer is wrong, somebody/thing has to keep a copy of the device settings, and the case of swapout they get nuked. Thus a reprobe must happen. ye

Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18pre21 ide-disk.c for OB800

2001-01-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
ive, "set_multmode", stat); > + else if (0x51 == stat) { > + /* > + ** HP OB800 laptop HD (IBM-DMCA-21440) fix. > + ** See comments in read_intr(). > + */ > + { > + ide_cmd(drive, WIN_S

KIOBUFS ??

2001-01-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
reduce the pain of restarting the entire request because of the huge DMA-PRD-Chain that has no clue how to report error location and allow a restart from NxPRD's before the error. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe li

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.0 MAINTAINERS for ide-floppy updates

2001-01-09 Thread Andre Hedrick
IDE/ATAPI FLOPPY DRIVERS > +P: Paul Bristow > +M: Paul Bristow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > +W: http://paulbristow.net/linux/idefloppy.html > L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > S: Maintained > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&q

Re: [PATCH] ide-features.c: unchecked kmalloc

2001-01-09 Thread Andre Hedrick
TOR_WORDS*4, GFP_ATOMIC); > + if (!id) { > + __restore_flags(flags); /* local CPU only */ > + return 0; > + } > ide_input_data(drive, id, SECTOR_WORDS); > (void) GET_STAT(); /* clear drive IRQ */ > ide__sti(); /*

Re: [PATCH] PCI device IDs for Intel i815E chipset (2.4.0)

2001-01-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
{{0x41,0x80,0x80}, {0x43,0x80,0x80}}, ON_BOARD, 0 }, > {DEVID_PIIX4NX, "PIIX4",PCI_PIIX, NULL, INIT_PIIX, > NULL, {{0x41,0x80,0x80}, {0x43,0x80,0x80}}, ON_BOARD, 0 }, > - {DEVID_PIIX4U3, "PIIX4", PCI_PI

Re: Promise Ultra66 DMA problems.

2001-01-05 Thread Andre Hedrick
8 > 2 D-Link DFE-538 (RTL8139) adapters > > Any help, or any way I could help would be appreciated. Eager to try > and get this resolved, as I've seen it crop up a number of times, and > it's also a pain to have to physically hit the reset button as the > machine is off-

Re: boot up problem of IDE disk in 2.4.0!

2001-01-05 Thread Andre Hedrick
IA_USB=m > CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA5249=m > # CONFIG_VIDEO_STRADIS is not set > CONFIG_VIDEO_ZORAN=m > CONFIG_VIDEO_BUZ=m > # CONFIG_VIDEO_ZR36120 is not set > CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y > CONFIG_SOUND_TRIDENT=m > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2001-01-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
/HÃ¥kan > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Woodhouse writes: > > > > The IBM DTLA drives aren't in the hpt366 bad_ata66_4 list still. > > > > --- > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | &

Re: 2.2.18 and Maxtor 96147H6 (61 GB)

2001-01-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
cribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe fr

Re: [PATCH] ide patch problem

2001-01-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
> - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

WOOHOO!!!!!! IDEDMA Timeouts!!

2001-01-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
I have a 95% solution that prevents that hang. It invokes some other minor kernel bugs because of the hack, but it recovers ad keeps on trucking. I now have to fine tune the NASTY-ARSE-HACK and test for possible corruption, but it looks like none to be found do date. Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO

Re: CPRM copy protection for ATA drives

2001-01-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
hidden CPRM space for key tracking and other services that are unknown. How it works is still a fuzzy thought, even for the LC4 people. I have to kill this timeout bug or people will scream bloody murder. Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA

Re: IDE-DMA Timeout Bug may be dead...

2001-01-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, David Ford wrote: > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, dep wrote: > > > > > On Tuesday 02 January 2001 06:00 am, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > | Doing final tests but it may have come to and end and that deadlock > > >

Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2001-01-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
patches I have media-type block code for DMA on know hosts. Basically I have not gotten the time to add the extra DMA engine code to handle ATAPI on these controllers in question. Yes they do have different address locations and rules for doing DMA/ATA33/66/100 ATAPI. Cheers, Andre Hedrick

Re: CPRM copy protection for ATA drives

2001-01-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
body create a GNU-CPRM and open-source it. License it for FREE. Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2001-01-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
? I thought this was a hpt366 problem, > and possibly has only shown up with IBM drives so far. > > It sounds like the proper fix would be to not enable ata66 by default. > LT, This is one of the evolution timing issues that both the drive guys and the chipset guys point fingers, whil

Re: IDE-DMA Timeout Bug may be dead...

2001-01-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
Nothing to do with your dirty crosstolak in you ribbon.. On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, dep wrote: > On Tuesday 02 January 2001 06:00 am, Andre Hedrick wrote: > | Doing final tests but it may have come to and end and that deadlock > | may be gone in a few hours after some sleep. > > if

IDE-DMA Timeout Bug may be dead...

2001-01-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
Doing final tests but it may have come to and end and that deadlock may be gone in a few hours after some sleep. Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kerne

Ignore that part of the patch.....

2001-01-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
it was a goof to an incomplete feature, but that was the only goof I am aware of at this point. Regards, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2001-01-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
I screwed up on the patch for that one and have to find the correct one that does the correct walk around on the mis matched standard problems. This is my bad, sorry...back in 20 minutes... Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To

Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2001-01-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
ed on Bit 13 only ATA-5 is HOST side and Device side based on Bit 14 only ATA-6 is HOST side and Device side based on Bit 14 and Bit 13 ATA-6 is the correct method... Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this li

[temp t13] Set Features CPRM Lock, Proposal (was Re: CPRM) (fwd)

2001-01-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
Anyone want to comment on the proposal to create a global setfeatures lockout of CPRM? The language used is in terms of the SPEC. Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 02:24

Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2001-01-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
DMA 3/4/5 is not functional.\n", >drive->name); > > as it apparently makes CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB a complete no-op? Exactly what it is designed to do, Ignore Validity Bits, because the whole damn messedup the rules between ATA-4 and ATA-6 Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Grou

Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2000-12-31 Thread Andre Hedrick
read/write mode for any FS. mke2fs -b 2048 /dev/hdc You must format to 2048 size blocks. UDF is an unknown. Regards, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development diff -urN linux-2.4.0-prerelease-pristine/drivers/ide/cs5530.c

Re: New info -- HPT370 RAID support now possible? (was New possibilitiesfor HPT370 RAID support?)

2000-12-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
reeBSD and extract the information for me go for it. I have a MESS known as CPRM to stop and I am in the middle of drafting a counter proposal to prevent the CPU/PC/Computer world from being royally screwed by Hollywood. http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/top/docs/copy122900.htm Cheers,

Re: [PATCH] 8139too fix

2000-12-28 Thread Andre Hedrick
Jeff Garzik, is offline for the next three weeks.. He claims that his wrists hurt from the keyboard ;-)... Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&qu

Re: The NSA's Security-Enhanced Linux (fwd)

2000-12-22 Thread Andre Hedrick
ight purpose). Director is just under "The Office Inspector General of NSA". Basically a division head that reports only to the OIG. Trust that I know what I am talking about. ;-) Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To

Blow Torch (Re: lockups from heavy IDE/CD-ROM usage)

2000-12-21 Thread Andre Hedrick
l PIIX4-AB/EB, PIIX3, and PIIX a/b. It is the DAMN hardware and quit BITCHING. I told everyone once that I was working on this issue. If you think you can fix it before me, be my guest. I have given you the INTEL doc numbers and the page and the section. Go read. Regards Andre Hedrick Linux ATA

Re: SerialATA Release, sortof........

2000-12-18 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, David Weinehall wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:27:07PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > FYI > > > > The Serial ATA specification (500 pages) is now available to the public > > under certain "click-to-accept" conditions.

SerialATA Release, sortof........

2000-12-18 Thread Andre Hedrick
Word. This just for those that care...please do not ask me for my copy as I am a member of this working group and bound under the NDA. Regards, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubsc

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre1

2000-12-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
For the Nth time I have been asked so I will has you the Nth++ time. Patch or wait.. Nobody is to comment against this thread, this is an Alan & Andre issue. Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe

Re: IDE bugs for intel 440LX chipset in Test12?

2000-12-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
scribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-

Re: [patch] I-Opener fix (again)

2000-12-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
uple of kernel releases) since I mentioned this > before and it doesn't look like it's made it in, and I haven't seen any more > comments on it in the list archives, so I'm bringing it up again in case it > just got forgotten about somewhere along the line.. > > As I

Re: HPT366 + SMP = slight corruption in 2.3.99 - 2.4.0-11

2000-12-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
. test12-pre8 and 2.2.18 is out and I do not chase BIOS revs in general. I work off the originals HPT366 1.07 this is because the lowest comman variable must be addressed and hope that the new stuff will not fail the backwards compatablity issue. Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Gro

Re: HPT366 + SMP = slight corruption in 2.3.99 - 2.4.0-11

2000-12-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
e latest out there...test12-pre7. Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [Fwd: NTFS repair tools]

2000-12-09 Thread Andre Hedrick
eaning, but that is what it orginally was defined by me. This is UNIX, and to quote one of HPA's signatures, "unix gives you enough rope to hang yourself" My personal favorite: You are going to shoot yourself in the head, aim carefully! How well you aim determines i

Re: Linux 2.2.18 almost...

2000-12-09 Thread Andre Hedrick
the patch against the files are identical. /linux/arch/i386/Makefile arch/i386/vmlinux.lds: arch/i386/vmlinux.lds.S FORCE $(CPP) -C -P -I$(HPATH) -imacros $(HPATH)/asm-i386/page_offset.h -Ui386 arch/i386/vmlinux.lds.S >arch/i386/vmlinux.lds All it is is a leftover file Cheers

Re: HPT366 + SMP = slight corruption in 2.3.99 - 2.4.0-11

2000-12-09 Thread Andre Hedrick
This has the missing ide-pci code from 2.2. It stablized my BP6 on the HPT core. Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development diff -urN linux-2.4.0-t12-7-pristine/drivers/ide/cs5530.c linux-2.4.0-t12-7/drivers/ide/cs5530.c --- linux

Re: Big IDE HD unclipping and IBM drive

2000-12-08 Thread Andre Hedrick
t; and not the true size, and even trying to set the correct size with > WIN_SET_MAX fails. Is there a way to use this combination (Bios, HD, > Linux)? Yep you have to use code/patches that are not in the standard kernel. Which kernel are you using? Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Gr

FS Corruption Again, with known cause, and solution...

2000-12-08 Thread Andre Hedrick
y do not even like to show how fugly it is! Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: New CD-R high capacity drive specs are coming. (fwd)

2000-12-07 Thread Andre Hedrick
attemp CDRW then it will die. Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, M Sweger wrote: > > Hi, > >See the article below. > > I just read that the specs are out for three different types of CD-R &g

RASTER driver for Xerox Printers

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
Who has one or knows how to kick one to life? Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read

Re: Problems with PDC202xx driver

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
e point (I hope..) > So I guess I'm stuck with loading their proprietary module whenever I want > to use the drive Yep, until they realize that their simple IP is nothing, and want to export the raid calls to the Linux Raid Engine, you are "stuck". > But thanks for the

Re: Problems with PDC202xx driver

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
a/ATA controller. There are two different BIOS cores for each design. Linux cleanly supports the BIOS cores know as "Ultra" and not the ones know as "Fasttrak". Because there are different PCI config space setups for each core then we have a problem unless we go and poke around for s

Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
Did you set and mount a "/var/shm" point? On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > Hi, > > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > No way that this could cause corruption it is a read-only test. > > As others pointed out, it's probably something relat

Re: system hang and corrupt ext2 filesystem with test12-pre5

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
t 2.4 kernels had, have been fixed in the latest > versions. > > What drive are you using? AFAIR, Andre Hedrick once said certain Maxtor > drives aren't quite safe with DMA. WHOA That was more than 3 years ago but that is not to day. I have been working with them internally to

Re: system hang and corrupt ext2 filesystem with test12-pre5

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
nd the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &

Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
s well be a bug in hdparm, > so someone else might also want to check... > > -Udo. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >

Re: DMA !NOT ONLY! for triton again...

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > Re: PCI clock... Something somewhere (can't find now) made me think that > > my MB is setting the PCI clock synchronously with the CPU clock, i.e. it > > is 25MHz in my case... Any ideas where I could see it?:-) > > I found it - it's in ide.tx

Re: Problems with PDC202xx driver

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
IOPorts > for this chipset. This seems like a really bad thing, considering > that I can gain no access to the drives currently using this driver. > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > --James Lamanna > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&

Re: 2.2.17 + ide patches + 61gb ibm disc = problem

2000-12-05 Thread Andre Hedrick
they are the only > drives on the ports. Shouldn't you be setting the jumpers on both drives > into the Single Drive (default) settings? I always thought the Master and > Slave positions are to be used only when connecting two drives on one port. > > hda and hdc should be th

Re: Re[2]: DMA !NOT ONLY! for triton again...

2000-12-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
;t (or shouldn't) >make a difference... Then WHAT ON THE EARTH??? Mike, have you been able to recall >what BIOS option turned DMA on? Shall I write to Andre Hedrick directly? Or is there >a mailing-list smth. like linux-ide? > > > Now, the question is, can we trust a hard

Re: IDE_TAPE problem wiht ONSTREAM DI30

2000-12-03 Thread Andre Hedrick
ose': ide-tape.c:1413: parse error before `case' > ide-tape.c:1424: warning: function returns address of local variable make[2]: > *** [ide-tape.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory > `/src/2.4-test11/drivers/ide' make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_ide] Error 2 make[1]: > Leaving

Re: IDE-SCSI/HPT366 Problem

2000-11-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
under PIO mode and not do DMAing then it will work. Also it goes for any device that does ATAPI DMA and not ATA DMA. There is a difference! Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubsc

Fasttrak Final Point....

2000-11-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
. Regards, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Fasttrak100 questions...

2000-11-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
S WILL ROYALLY SCREW EVERYBODY! HAHAHAHA. Now do not go dorking things that I am trying to make make public. This is really pissing me off! Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Fasttrak100 questions...

2000-11-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
er update or publish the updates, and YOU have not legal authority to force me to send you SHIT! Does that make it real clear or not? Later, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Fasttrak100 questions...

2000-11-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
ead the causes about "COMMERIAL INTENT", somewhere around section 7 paragraph 3. I have defined the terms that are acceptable to a binary module that incorporates GPL code of MINE! This I DEFINE THE TERMS, and they are module only! Regards, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research

Re: IDE-SCSI/HPT366 Problem

2000-11-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
risk buffer underruns. > A lockup however is not to be expected :-( It is completely expected bacause of teh active timing changes done on this chipset design. The timings are for ATA DMA and not ATAPI. You should expect a 100% hardlock on mistimed IO access. Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas

Re: IDE-SCSI/HPT366 Problem

2000-11-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
! > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.4.0-test11 ext2 fs corruption

2000-11-28 Thread Andre Hedrick
er we are talking FSC and ATA so what are the details? And where are we poking into the driver. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Patch: 2.4.0-test11ac4 version of pci and isapnp device ID'spatch

2000-11-28 Thread Andre Hedrick
that it omits the files that have gained the > same ID tables in Alan's ac4 release). The patch is FTPable from: > > >ftp://ftp.yggdrasil.com/pub/dist/device_control/kernel/pci_id_tables-2.4.0-test11-ac4.patch4.gz > Hey Alan, are we now sorting sub-id's? Andre Hedri

Re: test-10 tulip "eth0 timed out" (smp, heavy IDE use)

2000-11-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: IDE-driver not generalized enough ?

2000-11-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
> > Regards, > Bjorn > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Li

The Register (fwd)

2000-11-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
Linux was a member and would have to conform to the initial SPEC that we had input on and they did not! The next punch will be to deliver adapter support before them! Also any other things that are turning quietly in the land of ATA. Cheers All, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development Title: The

Re: ATA-4, ATA-5 TCQ status

2000-11-26 Thread Andre Hedrick
. I am working to get IBM to change the method of doing this to make it sane, but its not now. Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: PROBLEM: (U)DMA, dma_intr status=0x51, error=0x84

2000-11-26 Thread Andre Hedrick
safely support that transfer rate. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: difference between kernel and bios report on drive status

2000-11-25 Thread Andre Hedrick
RAM is always fully utilized (except if no swap), > UDMA33? And how come the 2nd is faster than the first one. > > I hope this is not a kernel bug. > > Fei > Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this lis

Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0"

2000-11-25 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Keith Owens wrote: > >Are you positive for modules too... > > Yes. I know this, I am being punchy. Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

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