Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261300AbUCHWIG (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Mar 2004 17:08:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261364AbUCHWIG (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Mar 2004 17:08:06 -0500 Received: from mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net ([151.164.30.28]:59029 "EHLO mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261300AbUCHWIB (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Mar 2004 17:08:01 -0500 Message-ID: <404CEEAF.5020608@matchmail.com> Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 14:07:43 -0800 From: Mike Fedyk User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040304) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rumi Szabolcs CC: Jeff Garzik , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Marvell PATA-SATA bridge meets 2.4.x References: <20040305231642.708841dd.rumi_ml@rtfm.hu> <404A9D14.5030107@matchmail.com> <20040308172839.17178753.rumi_ml@rtfm.hu> In-Reply-To: <20040308172839.17178753.rumi_ml@rtfm.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1330 Lines: 37 Rumi Szabolcs wrote: > On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 19:55:00 -0800 > Mike Fedyk wrote: > > >>Rumi Szabolcs wrote: >> >>>As it can be seen below, a native SATA150 drive is connected >>>to a SATA port implemented using that Marvell chip hooked up >>>to the ICH4's parallel ATA133 port and this way the drive is >>>only recognized (and used) as UDMA33: >>> >>>hdc: 312581808 sectors (160042 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(33) >>> >>>As far as I can remember someone (Jeff Garzik?) suspected the >>>SATA cable not being recognized as a 80-conductor thus >=UDMA66 >>>capable cable. Then it was told that there is a fix underway that >>>will be included in the 2.4.23 kernel. The above snippet shows >>>that the 2.4.25 kernel still has this problem. Any comments? >> >>You want to use a 2.6 kernel and talk to Bart, and Jeff about this... > > > Well, I don't really want a 2.6 kernel on that machine (yet) because > in my opinion it is not stable enough for a production system. What problems are you having? > > Would it be hard to fix that in 2.4? Dunno. - 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/