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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:19:44 -0800
From: Ross Biro <rossb@google.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.19, don't "hdparm -I /dev/hde" if hde is on a Asus A7V133
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Andre Hedrick wrote:

>And this is the drive hack job that Promise did to it in 2.4.19.
>This is not my driver version and you need to nail Marcelo for this issue.
>Wait, move to 2.4.20 and it may go away.  Better yet go back to 2.4.18 and
>it should be clean.
>
I'm not sure if the problem code is in the patch from Promise, but I can 
say we have applied the promise supplied patch to 2.4.18 and as a whole 
it is a nightmare.  I don't recomend it if you don't need it.

    Ross


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