Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932168AbWAAR4V (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jan 2006 12:56:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932135AbWAAR4U (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jan 2006 12:56:20 -0500 Received: from mail.metronet.co.uk ([213.162.97.75]:56250 "EHLO mail.metronet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932168AbWAAR4U (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jan 2006 12:56:20 -0500 From: Alistair John Strachan To: "1qay beer" <1qay@beer.com> Subject: Re: Wish for 2006 to Alan Cox and Jeff Garzik: A functional Driver for PDC202XX Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 17:56:08 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060101173909.D30257B386@ws5-10.us4.outblaze.com> In-Reply-To: <20060101173909.D30257B386@ws5-10.us4.outblaze.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601011756.08694.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1387 Lines: 39 On Sunday 01 January 2006 17:39, 1qay beer wrote: > Hello, > Dear Alan Cox, > Dear Jeff Garzik, > > Everyone a happy new year! > > We are in stable Kernel 2.6.14.5, year 2006. > Since 1997 people asking on several list for a functional PDC202XX Driver. > Since some years I spend hours and hours finding a solution for a stable > driver. (PDC20269/Promise Ultra133 TX2) > There seem to be none. > > There are two Solution: > -The IDE Driver (pdc202xx_new) has still problems with "DMA Timeout". > -The Libata Driver (pata_pdc2027x) seems to be still somewhat experimental. > > Unfortunatly I'am not a kernel developper else there would be probably > already a solution ;-) > > So what is the Solution for the PDC20269 Ultra ATA Controller? > I would mark this bold on the wishlist for 2006 ;-) I own this controller and it's been working with the kernel driver since 2002.. I'm not sure what you expect people to do about clearly faulty hardware. Just buy a new one? -- Cheers, Alistair. 'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.' Third year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - 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/