Re: problem with pata_hpt37x ...

From: Herbert Poetzl
Date: Thu Jan 04 2007 - 12:31:22 EST


On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 08:09:56PM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:
> Alan wrote:
> >On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 08:01:45 +0100
> >Herbert Poetzl <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>if you are interested in investigating this, please
> >>let me know what kind of data you would like to see
> >>and/or what kind of tests would be appreciated.
> >
> >I reviewed the 374 code a bit further to see what might be causing this
> >and found the slave channel end of DMA handling was using the wrong port
> >I think.
>
> This now passes all my stress tests Alan. No more "Interrupt disabled"
> or dmesg storms. I put the HPT Rocketraid 1540 (HPT374) back in a box
> and connected 4 200GB ata drives to it using SATA-PATA bridgeboards as
> before. It looks to be rock solid now.

sounds great! where can I get that version?
should it be in 2.6.20-rc* or is there a separate
patch available somewhere?

TIA,
Herbert

> Brad
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