Re: IDE Patch (fwd)

Martin Eriksson (nitrax@giron.wox.org)
Tue, 8 Jan 2002 17:25:35 +0100


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andre Hedrick" <andre@linux-ide.org>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 10:15 AM
Subject: IDE Patch (fwd)

>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 14:17:00 -0500 (EST)
> From: Rob Radez <rob@osinvestor.com>
> To: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
> Subject: IDE Patch
>
> Hi,
> I'm using your ide.2.4.16.12102001 patch with a Promise PDC20269
> controller and a Maxtor 160GB hard drive on 2.4.17, and I just wanted to
> tell you that it's working great so far.
>
> Thanks for all the great code,
> Rob Radez

It works 100% here too! Even on my old blacklisted drives, and my old BP6
mobo with a buggy HPT366 controller.

No more DMA timeouts
No more Attempts to read beyond the end of disk
No more use of ATA-33 on a drive that cannot handle it

Nice work Andre!

_____________________________________________________
| Martin Eriksson <nitrax@giron.wox.org>
| MSc CSE student, department of Computing Science
| Umeå University, Sweden

- ABIT BP6(RU) - 2xCeleron 400 - 128MB/PC100/C2 Acer
- Maxtor 10/5400/U33 HPT P/M - Seagate 6/5400/U33 HPT S/M
- 2xDE-530TX - 1xTulip - Linux 2.4.17+ide+preempt

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