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

2001-01-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
lt_req, set_multmode_intr); + return ide_started; + } } - return ide_stopped; + return ide_error(drive, "multwrite_intr", stat); } /* - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body o

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

2001-01-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
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. yes/no? Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development

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] 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 writing

Re: IDE DMA problems on 2.4.0 with vt82c686a driver

2001-01-11 Thread Andre Hedrick
) 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...? Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

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

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/

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 to see the code to handle the apparent VIA DMA bug

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. "Tech

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 o

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 o

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 Ch

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-13 Thread Andre Hedrick
x-kernel" in 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
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 the body of a message to [EMA

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: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe400 [0xe400]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe600 [0xe608]. - 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: int. assignment on SMP + ServerWorks chipset

2001-01-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~pem --- 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
e 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 10:06:38AM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: Good Morni

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] Please re

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
, 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 2126 2bf5 1e4c ea8b 7453 bf38 40fa

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-18 Thread Andre Hedrick
to use the box for a month and then go "f..., this box has faulty memory!" or ..."faulty disk!". Yes, that's what's happened to all of us. It's much nicer to get a warranty replacement, when you don't have any data on the disk. It can do that without a file system also...

Re: [PATCH] PCI-Devices and ServerWorks chipset

2001-01-18 Thread Andre Hedrick
, 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 get any info needed, you just have to define the scope. Then will not can

Re: [PATCH] PCI-Devices and ServerWorks chipset

2001-01-18 Thread Andre Hedrick
, they 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 (fwd)

2001-01-18 Thread Andre Hedrick
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 snip To: Andre Hedrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: snip Subject: RE: [PATCH] PCI-Devices and ServerWorks chipset (fwd

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-19 Thread Andre Hedrick
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, I think. I do have some of these on the radar map. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA

Minors remaining in Major 10 ??

2001-01-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
and 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: 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. There are some things you can not do to a device

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 block subsystems a general access misc-char minor to do special service access that can not be down

Re: Minors remaining in Major 10 ??

2001-01-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Andre Hedrick wrote: No, I think I understood perfectly well. I said that if it's going to be bound to each block device subsystem it would make more sense to establish that tie explicitly -- if that isn't possible I'm a bit confused

Re: Minors remaining in Major 10 ??

2001-01-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Andre Hedrick wrote: Hi Peter, Regardless if we rip out the entire rule of majors for dev_t, will there be a service dummy driver to various block-devices? There is a real need for this if we are going to get full control of the hardware

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

2001-01-21 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:42:41PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 02:57:07PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: chipset ---\ | \-IDC

Re: VIA chipset discussion

2001-01-23 Thread Andre Hedrick
hde:hde: irq timeout: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } No one is to every override the driver on setting up the IO base. 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 PR

Re: 2.4.1-test10

2001-01-23 Thread Andre Hedrick
. The point may be that if we have some extra cycles spinning, why not use them to a painful task when it will not hurt as much? Just my nickel on the issue. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: 2.4 disk speed 66% slowdown...

2001-01-23 Thread Andre Hedrick
-ATA. ER, were you getting UDMA-100-66 out of 2.2.18 stock? Now what are you getting in 2.4.0? 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: 2.4 disk speed 66% slowdown...

2001-01-23 Thread Andre Hedrick
of where the standard changes, the validity bits for determining the host/drive detection pair for the presense willl be fuzzy as is my explaination. Andre Hedrick wrote: On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Florin Andrei wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: The REAL problem was in disk performance. The apm

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

2001-01-24 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 02:57:07PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: Vojtech, I worry that the dynamic timing that you are calculating could bite you. Well, I know this. But I fear hardcoded timings won't really help here, unles everyone out

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

2001-01-24 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:04:50AM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: Well, I know this. But I fear hardcoded timings won't really help here, unless everyone out there ran their chipsets at 33 MHz, in which case the You have to run the ATA

Re: when is overriding idebus safe?

2001-01-24 Thread Andre Hedrick
was for VLB/ISA/EISA systems, but I have been wrong before. Chers, 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: when is overriding idebus safe?

2001-01-24 Thread Andre Hedrick
"unsubscribe linux-kernel" in 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]

Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11

2001-01-24 Thread Andre Hedrick
build error (Hans Grobler) o Fix incorrect preprocessor use in umsdos(Andreas Franck) o DRM makefile fix(Keith Owens) o IDE 2.4.0-prerelease*1231.patch (Andre Hedrick) o Fixes for CVS gcc and semaphores

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

2001-01-25 Thread Andre Hedrick
take it that way.) David Downey - 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 Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: sen

SERVERWORKS (READ ME) please....

2001-01-25 Thread Andre Hedrick
LMKL, I have a meeting in the morning with their CTO. I want a core dump of every issue that needs to be address in Linux to put in his hand. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: hdd: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekCompleteError }

2001-01-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
CD-ROM drive, 240kB Cache, DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 -Jacob - 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 Linux ATA D

Re: hdd: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekCompleteError }

2001-01-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: On Sat, Jan 27 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: I've been getting this during the boot sequence for quite some time now. They don't seem to impact the functionality of the drive any though. Just another extra-verbose kernel message I should ignore

Re: kernel boot problems

2001-01-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
just boot up with linux root=blah and you'll be up and running! Hope this helps. derek - 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

SMP Athlon...(a quiet question)

2001-01-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
ER, they work but must compile as PII/Celeron :-( A bunch of memcpy header stuff fails to compile current is one of the left overs in some cases. I will dive deeper in monday, just wanting some feed back first. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
canoes in the winter. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, paradox3 wrote: I have an SMP machine (dual PII 400s) running 2.2.16 with one 10,000 RPM IBM 10 GB SCSI drive (AIC 7890 on motherboard, using aic7xxx.o), and four various IDE drives. The SCSI drive performs

Re: 2.4.1-pre8 losing pages

2001-01-28 Thread Andre Hedrick
the problem. Peter, did the scratch-test series pass or fail? Did it report any bit failures on the check? 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 F

Re: PDC20265, disk corruption and NMI watchdog...

2001-01-28 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 Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kern

Re: IBM encryption chip support?

2001-01-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Miles Lane wrote: Will this chip need any kernel support or will it just need to be supported in usermode? http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2680013,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_rt_latest It looks like CPRM on the mainboard. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA

Re: [PATCH] No VIA IDE DMA unless configured

2001-01-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
? No 'CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO' is a global config option across all platforms. 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: VIA VT82C686X

2001-01-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
p://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: VIA VT82C686X

2001-01-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
ad 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: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-01-31 Thread Andre Hedrick
) geometry does not exist (ii) hdparm is just some user program.] 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: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-01-31 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Paul Flinders wrote: Talking of the Promise are there any plans to support re-enabling of the 2nd channel for boards which have an on-board FastTrak? FastTrak == Ultra - Fake-RAID Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-01-31 Thread Andre Hedrick
On 31 Jan 2001, Rupa Schomaker wrote: Andre Hedrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But there is no indication of what the problems could be, or what he thinks the geometry should be (and why). I see nothing very wrong in the posted data. We agree Andries, but the enduser wants

Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-01-31 Thread Andre Hedrick
es. Maybe a compile option could help... 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: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-01-31 Thread Andre Hedrick
Okay.. On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Dan Hollis wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Mark Lord wrote: Even better would be to add a stage in front of the fall-back, which queries the BIOS (from kernel startup code) for translation info on ALL drives

Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-02-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
is easier for the human to deal with). It doesn't but I got out of the geometry business two+ years ago... Andries (Mr. FDisk) Brouwer is the man.. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Updates...ide.2.4.5-p1.05132001...FastTrak...CSB5...AMD761

2001-05-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
. :-( I hope to have all of this cleaned up and ready for submission for the pre3/4/5 patch releases. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development - ASL, Inc. Toll

Re: Linux-Kernel Archive: ATA overlap/queuing support ?

2001-05-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
have the docs, and it is supported in ide-floppy and ide-tape. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development - ASL, Inc. Toll free: 1-877-ASL-3535 1757 Houret Court

Re: Linux-Kernel Archive: ide-floppy

2001-05-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
me on that one. -- Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development - ASL, Inc. Toll free: 1-877-ASL-3535 1757 Houret Court Fax: 1-408-941-2071

Re: Linux-Kernel Archive: ide-floppy

2001-05-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
-ac fails and the main tree doesnt that would be good. There shouldnt be any differences that matter but apparently there are Thump StoatWblr about the ali crash... Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development

Re: [PATCH] kmalloc checks for drivers/ide/ide-probe.c (244ac16)

2001-05-25 Thread Andre Hedrick
hwif_init (ide_hwif_t *hwif) -- regards, Rasmus([EMAIL PROTECTED]) An Emacs reference mug is what I want. It would hold ten gallons of coffee. -- Steve VanDevender Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development

Re: [PATCH] kmalloc checks for drivers/ide/ide-probe.c (244ac16)

2001-05-25 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Rasmus Andersen wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:47:52PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: Not valid because the jump to that part of the code is protected. If a polling response for a valid status and no timeout, is detected then it attempts to the command for real

Part II of Lameness...

2001-05-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
that performance! 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] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Part I of Lameness...

2001-05-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
Since this was filtered the first time... Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 23:21:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Andre Hedrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Lacking Performance my ARSE! beetle:~ # hdparm -it /dev/hda

Re: pdc20268 error?

2001-05-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
there are no data points that can be read from the new TX2 that have any real trustable world meaning. Cheers, On Tue, 29 May 2001, Vasile Gaburici wrote: Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 22:41:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Andre Hedrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: pdc20268 error

Re: Promise Ultra100 TX2 pbm

2001-05-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
(on) geometry = 53040/16/63, sectors = 53464320, start = 0 Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development - ASL, Inc. Toll free: 1-877-ASL-3535 1757 Houret Court

Re: Promise Ultra100 TX2 (105a:4d68)

2001-05-31 Thread Andre Hedrick
) Hi Andre, i have some new IDE PCI cards Promise Ultra100 TX2, and it seems that no linux kernel is able to detect or use those chips (PCI ID 105a:4d68). The chips are stamped PROMISE PDC 20268. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Andre Hedrick Linux

Re: Problem with kernel 2.2.19 Ultra-DMA and SMP, once more

2001-06-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
/ | | Phone: +46-8-470 2155(FAX: +46-8-470 2199)GSM: +46-708-225 805 | \/ || || ooO Ooo Andre Hedrick ASL Kernel Development Linux ATA Development

Re: [PATCH] HPT370 misc (for real this time)

2001-06-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
Not Exist + p += sprintf(p, --- Primary Channel + --- Secondary Channel + --\n); + Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development

Re: [patch]: ide dma timeout retry in pio

2001-05-28 Thread Andre Hedrick
. because of re-seeks then the timeout value for that request must be expanded. Yep In some cases yes, but it would be better if I had a standard counter that meant something. Also changing the jiffie counter in ide_delay_50ms to a mdelay may have done more harm than good. Andre Hedrick

Speed to please all......

2001-06-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
. Andre Hedrick ASL Kernel Development Linux ATA Development - ASL, Inc. Toll free: 1-877-ASL-3535 1757 Houret Court Fax: 1-408-941-2071 Milpitas, CA 95035

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
"unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
particular projects. Jeff Andre Hedrick wrote: Jeff, Have you been in the bottle again? If this is not a joke, it is not funny. On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: TRG has reprioritized it's long term objectives, and due to resource constraints and short term

Re: Variable Block Chains in ll_rw_block()

2000-09-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
just see how many drivers this breaks. Someone needs to write a test harness that will send all kinds of variable size blocks chains to test all the drivers. Since it's me who's breaking the world here with this, is this my job? snip oh my, nothing is worth that kind of reaction. Andre

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-03 Thread Andre Hedrick
On 3 Sep 2000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andre Hedrick) writes: Apology to Jeff, I am sorry to here of this, but I know what you mean about microsoft. My and co-worker's code for doing full taskfile access under linux was rejected here but is being used

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
iting them, it will be fun. to track the tags of queued commands, including those via ide_ioctl. but ensuring tag sanity is very different from filtering. It is more than tag tracking. If you read the 404 page PDF you will understand that there is a reason beyond what is easily explainable. Chee

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
choose not to Copyright patches. Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - 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: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
and need a sound board that will make you think in ways you have never tried before, HPA is the man! Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the F

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
the IOCTL; however, I will allow all BAD-ROOTS to ram shit down the pipes and only certify programs that are known to do things correctly. This will allow OEMs to keep their secrets and remove Linux from needed to know or allow binary modules to load in the driver that are not native. Cheers, Andre

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
anyone sued them yet? -- dwmw2 Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - 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: Hangup: Promise ATA100 (PDC20267) and Quantum disk

2000-09-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
be linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - 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: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-05 Thread Andre Hedrick
as a module and contains no GPL code. Yeah and I will stop being an ASSHOLE that day also! Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - 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: Hangup: Promise ATA100 (PDC20267) and Quantum disk

2000-09-05 Thread Andre Hedrick
, UDMA(33) hdf: 58633344 sectors (30020 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=58168/16/63, (U)DMA hdg: 66835440 sectors (34220 MB) w/1961KiB Cache, CHS=66305/16/63, (U)DMA Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" i

Re: Hangup: Promise ATA100 (PDC20267) and Quantum disk

2000-09-05 Thread Andre Hedrick
[] = { }; ? Since you are sharing interrupts with your printer, did you enable shared interrupts in the ata/ide driver? Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy PS 'ide.2.2.17.all.2904.patch' is now on kernel.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-k

Re: 2.4.0-test5 problems with Promise ATA100

2000-08-31 Thread Andre Hedrick
read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - 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: 3ware controllers and fatal failure mode design decision

2000-09-07 Thread Andre Hedrick
registers as an extra drive. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy Technical Advisor, Board of Directors of 3ware - 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: Notebook disk spindown

2000-09-09 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Russell King wrote: Andre Hedrick writes: You know that it would take me 25 minutes or less to fix the code if I had a full native taskfile. This would allow a (void *)(void) to be set in kernel apmd and have all the drive data and callouts. Andre, I totally

Re: Notebook disk spindown

2000-09-09 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Russell King wrote: Also, please note that I was talking about the whole machine, NOT just the hard drive. Okay, but I was responding based upon the subject line. Cheers Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubs

Re: Notebook disk spindown

2000-09-09 Thread Andre Hedrick
if you had a continuious polling of power status wrt standby. Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - 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: Notebook disk spindown

2000-09-09 Thread Andre Hedrick
nel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - 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] VIA IDE driver v2.3

2000-09-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
Vojtech, How about putting the old credits list back in because if the code base that you started with, please. Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please re

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre6

2000-09-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
now in my patch, I will pull it if it will prevent me from having to carry this monster around. I am considering the pull of the backport because I do not have time to do both directions. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

2.2 Backport Terminated ...

2000-09-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
Finish Drive Certification Model and test Suite. Stop pissing Linus off on a regular basis ;-) Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy PS. If you do not get a reply or a late one you now know why. PS. If BKZ is up to it, he will begin to handle the back-ports again

Re: byte order of IDE identify data on ppc, sparc etc

2000-09-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
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Re: Update Linux 2.4 Status/TODO list

2000-09-13 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Capable Of Corrupting Your FS/data * Use PCI DMA by default in IDE is unsafe (must not do so on via VPx, x 3) (requires chipset tuning to be enabled according to Andre Hedrick --- we need to turn this on by default -- TYT

Re: Update Linux 2.4 Status/TODO list

2000-09-13 Thread Andre Hedrick
of invoking spin-up by APM attempts or using taskfile commands to brut force it into life. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - 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://w

Re: Adaptec RAID driver?

2000-09-13 Thread Andre Hedrick
of the aac scsi raid cards Not until the is an API bypass of XOR in md.c that allows for RAID 5 calculations to be redirected to the HOST will this ever be adopted. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" i

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