Re: IDE hackery: lock fixes and hotplug controller stuff

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 09:46:56PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> Also aren't you the one who has made "ide-scsi" interface non-functional
> by introducing ide_setting_sem, he? 8)
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/2/18/146

Yeah I also removed ide-scsi interface from the -ac patches in 2.4 8)

> > I also have the it8212 working in smart but non raid now. Seems issuing an
> > LBA 48 cache flush (0xEF) crashes the firmware which is why it died on load
> > for some users.  To do that I've added hwif->raw_taskfile() so that an
> > interface can filter commands.
> 
> Ouch, they should really fix this in the firmware.

Agreed. I need to verify its not our fault yet. Either way it'll need to
stay there because most people have older firmware. One thing I need to
look at is how to find firmware versions as it seems 1.2 doesnt do LBA48

Alan

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