From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:34:57 +0000
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On Tuesday 23 January 2007 01:24, Robert Hancock wrote:
> As a final aside, this is another case where the hardware docs for this
> controller would really be useful, in order to know whether we are
> actually supposed to be reading that register in ADMA mode or not. I
> sent a query to Allen Martin at NVIDIA asking if there's a way I could
> get access to the documents, but I haven't heard anything yet.

Obviously, NVIDIA's response is disappointing, but thank you for putting the 
time in to debug this problem. Definitely sounds like a hardware defect, I'm 
just glad there's a workaround.

Will we see this fix in 2.6.20?

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

Final year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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