On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Wayne Stidolph wrote:
> Just FYI, the chipset page, http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html, says
> " These companies have support for ATA-133 chipsets in Linux." and
> includes Promise Technologies, linking to their Ultra133 TX2. However, I
> purchased the Ultra133 TX2 and found it doesn't work under Linux (at
> least with my ATA100 UDMA 5 disks; can't enable *any* DMA modes).
> Promise tech support acknowledged the problem and advised me to return
> the board; they say 'we don't have any drivers yet, and we do not have
> an estimate of when those might be available.'
>
> Wayne Stdiolph
>
Please see http://www.linuxdiskcert.org.
This is the first time ever Linux has failed to lead the way because of
patch submission refusal from the folks above.
Please goto IRC Server irc.kernelnewbies.org and join the #kernelnewbies
channel. There are a list of forks Linux has take as a direct result of
many of the core developers becoming frustrated with the process.
Some day in the future I will attempt a resubmission.
Regards,
Andre Hedrick
CEO/President, LAD Storage Consulting Group
Linux ATA Development
Linux Disk Certification Project