Re: New ac patch???

[Jakob Kemi]

On Wednesdayen den 21 November 2001 13.23, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 11:12:28AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > Not exaclty. It is a 48Gig drive in a dell inspiron 8000. I think it
> > > > is IBM but the logs do not show a brandname. I can try open up the
> > > > case tonight if you want to know for sure?
> > >
> > > It's an IBM IC25T048ATDA05-0 to be precise.
> >
> > Thanks. It seems IBM laptop drives are the ones that specifically need
> > this fix. That ties in with the windows 98 reports/microsoft fixes.
>
> Would that be enough reason to add only the specific flushing code of
> the taskfile patch (if at all possible) to the kernel? Maybe Andre is
> willing to extract the relevant code in a seperate patch...
>
> -Marcel

This also affects my Desktop PC with two IBM Deskstar 60GXP 40GB drives. I'd 
like to see it in 2.4.15.

/Jakob