Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:41:51 -0600
From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5
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To: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
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Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> 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?

Hopefully, assuming it actually does fix the problem for those that have 
been seeing it..

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