Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270271AbTGWNG7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:06:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270272AbTGWNG7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:06:59 -0400 Received: from ns0.eris.qinetiq.com ([128.98.1.1]:27248 "HELO mail.eris.qinetiq.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S270271AbTGWNGy (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:06:54 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Mark Watts Organization: QinetiQ To: andersen@codepoet.org, Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:20:28 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: linux-kernel References: <20030722184532.GA2321@codepoet.org> <20030722185443.GB6004@gtf.org> <20030722190705.GA2500@codepoet.org> In-Reply-To: <20030722190705.GA2500@codepoet.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200307231420.28717.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1762 Lines: 54 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > On Tue Jul 22, 2003 at 02:54:43PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Bart, Alan, and I have been looking at this. It uses the ancient CAM > > model, that we don't really want to merge directly in the kernel. It's > > very close to the libata model, from the user perspective, so life is > > good. > > I was reading over your libata driver yesterday. Certainly a lot > cleaner than the cam stuff IMHO. Given the info made available > via the Promise driver, I expect that I could get an initial > libata host adaptor driver hacked together in short order. After > all, the Intel one is just 400 lines. So unless you (or anyone > else) have already started or would prefer to do the honors, > I'll try to hack something together this evening, > > -Erik Oooh Oooh!!!! I have an onboard Promise SATA chip - the 30276 (its on an MSI KT4A Ultra board), which gives me two SATA and one PATA ports (only use 2 at a time)... If you want someone to test... I can slap a PATA drive onto the PATA port, but I've been holding off getting any SATA drives until I can use them under linux, although I'm running out of drive space so this is quite timely... :) Cheers, Mark - -- Mark Watts Senior Systems Engineer QinetiQ TIM St Andrews Road, Malvern GPG Public Key ID: 455420ED -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/HoucBn4EFUVUIO0RAmwjAJ9/IY3N+AdOdNmfKwPkPoXfDw+PEgCgm7XD tR56nTVC9b0u8aBZMhWaTag= =QsVB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/