Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread Alan Cox
what the bug is, and whether there is some other work-around, and whether it is 100% certain that it is just those two controllers (maybe the other ones are buggy too, but the 2.2.x tests basically cured their symptoms too and peopl ehaven't reported them because they are "fixed"). I've not

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread John Heil
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 00:25:28 + (GMT) From: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Vojtech Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch what the bug is, and whether

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, John Heil wrote: On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 00:25:28 + (GMT) From: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Vojtech Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread John Heil
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 16:52:00 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Heil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED], Vojtech Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, John Heil wrote: Yes, initially the 686a was problematic, now with an 80 wire cable its fine. One point of clarification... I started out with a simple hdparm -d1 which failed 85% of the time. I added the other stuff only to enhance the -d0 state I was left with.

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
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" in the standard. "Technically correct" and "state diagrams as in the standard" mean less that

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" in the standard. "Technically correct" and

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
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't be silly. You're entirely ignoring the concept of hardware bugs. Which is one very likely reason for this whole

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't be silly. You're entirely ignoring the concept of hardware

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't be silly. You're entirely ignoring the concept of hardware

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread davej
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: |The system is an AMD K6-3 on a FIC PA-2013 mobo with 3 IDE disks. The |size of hda is 4.3 GB, the size of hdb is 854 MB and the size of hdc is |1.2 GB. Hdd is an IDE CDROM drive I think its significant that two reports I have are FIC PA-2013 but not

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 noted by the PIIX4 on the Intel 440*X Chipset groups. Since it

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