Re: IRQ problem with PCMCIA

2005-08-23 Thread Andre Hedrick
Alan, The old code can be fixed, just I don't have the time or any desire to look at it again, still. The burn out from the last issues from 2001-2003, cost me some health problems over the stress. If I encounter these problems and become annoyed enough, I will fix it. However, if it is cheap

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-22 Thread Andre Hedrick
WHOA Gents! Let me get some popcorn to watch this p-contest. The way you guys are sniping at each other sounds like the good-old days, when everyone railed me and the subsystem and ended up railing back Guess nothing was learned from the 6+ years of flamage. I have mellowed out with age ... Ba

Re: [PATCH] IDE disks show invalid geometries in /proc/ide/hd*/geometry

2005-08-03 Thread Andre Hedrick
Did you read ATA-1 through ATA-7 to understand all the variations? On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Mark Bellon wrote: > The ATA specification tells large disk drives to return C/H/S data of > 16383/16/63 regardless of their actual size (other variations on this > return include 15 heads and/or 4092 cylind

Re: Greg's Decree! (was Re: Linus' decrees?)

2005-02-24 Thread Andre Hedrick
Greg, Linus is not always correct, sometimes his point of view is hard to see. My shoulders got in the way most of the time; however, Linus is consistant. Well until he changes his mind. Crack ?? Get some plumber's putty to smooth over the gap. Cheers, Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consu

Re: Linus' decrees?

2005-02-24 Thread Andre Hedrick
Stuart, Yeah! It is a road paved w/ X-maintainers ... AKA the the difference between the active maintainer list and the credit list. Cheers, Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Stuart MacDonald wrote: > Recently I ran across > http://groups.google.ca/groups

Re: Patch for IDE hang after resetting quirk drive

2001-07-05 Thread Andre Hedrick
Looks valid will take! Cheers, Andre Hedrick ASL Kernel Development Linux ATA Development - ASL, Inc. Toll free: 1-877-ASL-3535 1757 Houret Court Fax: 1

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)V3

2001-06-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
should finally send you the code for 48-bit, sorry about the delay. Cheers, Andre Hedrick ASL Kernel Development Linux ATA Development - ASL, Inc. Toll free: 1-877-ASL-3535 1757 Houret

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)V3

2001-06-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
Web: www.aslab.com On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Gunther Mayer wrote: > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > That is a legacy bit from ATA-2 but it is one of those things you can not > > get rid of :-( even thou things are obsoleted, they are not retired. > > This means th

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)V3

2001-06-28 Thread Andre Hedrick
is to be added for 48-bit addressing and it will reflect drive->ctl soon. I have not decided how to use it best or at all, but it has meaning and once I add-in the real def of bit3 then I will not need to look it up again. Cheers, Andre Hedrick ASL Kernel Development Linux ATA De

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)

2001-06-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You know yourself first and all the screwed up ATAPI products that are > still using SFF-8020 that has been obsoleted before I start maintaining > the subsystem

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)

2001-06-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
; } } It will not be accepted until it correctly address and handles all HOSTs correctly, period. Andre Hedrick ASL Kernel Development Linux ATA Development - ASL, Inc. Toll free: 1

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)

2001-06-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
PARANIOA. Remember that ATAPI is generally screwed beyond reality, so adjusting the probe code in general (global) is a bad thing. Andre Hedrick ASL Kernel Development Linux ATA Development - ASL, Inc

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)

2001-06-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
It should be all devices that do not claim ATA-4/5 support. I have to go back and look to see what the cut-off was that CFA agreed to move forward off the dead docs. Cheers, Andre Hedrick ASL Kernel Development Linux ATA Development

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)

2001-06-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
ng it, just blanket chopper gunning is not always safe. Cheers, Andre Hedrick ASL Kernel Development Linux ATA Development - ASL, Inc. Toll free: 1-877-ASL-3535 1757 Houret

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)

2001-06-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
[IDE_CONTROL_OFFSET]); // clear nIEN == >enable irqs > if (ide_request_irq(hwif->irq, &ide_intr, sa, hwif->name, hwgroup)) { > if (!match) > kfree(hwgroup); > Andre Hedrick ASL Kernel Development Linux ATA

Eye2Eye a hope for Promise to Join Linux

2001-06-13 Thread Andre Hedrick
e watching here. Respectfully, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [craigl@promise.com: Getting A Patch Into The Kernel] (fwd)

2001-06-13 Thread Andre Hedrick
ty. It's just a bunch of disjointed > individuals who spend a lot of time in meetings filling out forms. You can > deal with them as a faceless professional with a known set of duties, or you > can try to deal with them as a human being. In this case you are wrong and I wish you wer

Re: [craigl@promise.com: Getting A Patch Into The Kernel] (fwd)

2001-06-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
e now gone. They got to close to GPL/GNU and something happened. Regards, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, bert hubert wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 11:22:56PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > I do not want or need your company's patches, period. >

[craigl@promise.com: Getting A Patch Into The Kernel] (fwd)

2001-06-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
your dear "Linus Chen". Oh answer your voice mail, I left you a message. Regards, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - Forwarded message from Craig Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Sen

Re: No DMA with ATAPI devices on PDC20267

2001-06-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
en Mollett > Stephen, I can make it do DMA ATAPI, however I have to add the code that used the second DMA engine space. Andre Hedrick ASL Kernel Development Linux ATA Development - ASL, Inc.

Re: Linux support for PDC20268

2001-06-08 Thread Andre Hedrick
I am betting on CMD and Highpoint. I will meet with CMD in Irvine during the next T13 meeting in two weeks. Andre Hedrick ASL Kernel Development Linux ATA Development - ASL, Inc. Toll

Re: Linux support for PDC20268

2001-06-07 Thread Andre Hedrick
10178 Berlin > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +49(0)30-72 62 06 50 > WWW:www.convergence.de Fax:+49(0)30-72 62 06 55 > Andre Hedrick ASL Kernel Development Linux ATA Development

Re: patch for ide.2.4.5-ac8

2001-06-05 Thread Andre Hedrick
ig_dword(dev, 0x20, set_bmiba|1); > goto second_chance_to_dma; > > Cheers, > Todd > ** > This footnote confirms that this email message has been swept by > MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. > ***

Speed to please all......

2001-06-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
. Andre Hedrick ASL Kernel Development Linux ATA Development - ASL, Inc. Toll free: 1-877-ASL-3535 1757 Houret Court Fax: 1-408-941-2071 Milpitas, CA 95035

Re: [PATCH] HPT370 misc (for real this time)

2001-06-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
^^^ DNE -- Does Not Exist + p += sprintf(p, "--- Primary Channel " + "--- Secondary Channel " + "--\n"

Re: Problem with kernel 2.2.19 Ultra-DMA and SMP, once more

2001-06-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | Network Engineer, Bluelabs http://www.bluelabs.se/ | > | Phone: +46-8-470 2155(FAX: +46-8-470 2199)GSM: +46-708-225 805 | > \--------/ >

Re: Promise Ultra100 TX2 (105a:4d68)

2001-05-31 Thread Andre Hedrick
> Eberhard Moenkeberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development - ASL, Inc. Toll free: 1-877-ASL-3535 1757 Houret Court

Re: Promise Ultra100 TX2 pbm

2001-05-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
geometry = 79780/16/63, sectors = 80418240, start = 0 > > > /dev/hdg (C) > >/dev/hdg: > multcount= 16 (on) > I/O support = 3 (32-bit w/sync) > unmaskirq= 1

Re: pdc20268 error?

2001-05-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
no data points that can be read from the new TX2 that have any real trustable world meaning. Cheers, On Tue, 29 May 2001, Vasile Gaburici wrote: > Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 22:41:38 -0400 (EDT) > From: Vasile Gaburici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Part I of Lameness...

2001-05-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
Since this was filtered the first time... Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 23:21:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Lacking Performance my ARSE! beetle:~ # hdparm -it /d

Part II of Lameness...

2001-05-28 Thread Andre Hedrick
that performance! Regards, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [patch]: ide dma timeout retry in pio

2001-05-28 Thread Andre Hedrick
lso changing the jiffie counter in ide_delay_50ms to a mdelay may have done more harm than good. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development - ASL, Inc. Toll free: 1-877-AS

Re: [PATCH] kmalloc checks for drivers/ide/ide-probe.c (244ac16)

2001-05-25 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Rasmus Andersen wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:47:52PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > Not valid because the jump to that part of the code is protected. > > If a polling response for a valid status and no timeout, is detected then > > it

Re: [PATCH] kmalloc checks for drivers/ide/ide-probe.c (244ac16)

2001-05-25 Thread Andre Hedrick
} > } > +return; > + > +err_kmalloc_max_ra: > +kfree(max_sect); > +err_kmalloc_max_sect: > +kfree(bs); > +err_kmalloc_gs: > +kfree(gd->part); > +err_kmalloc_gd_part: > +kfree(gd->sizes); > +err_k

Re: Linux-Kernel Archive: ide-floppy

2001-05-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
; > If people can pin down cases where -ac fails and the main tree doesnt that > would be good. There shouldnt be any differences that matter but apparently there > are Thump "StoatWblr" about the ali crash... Andre Hedric

Re: Linux-Kernel Archive: ide-floppy

2001-05-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
tock or pre-patched linus-trees work and pre-patched ac-trees fail... So you got me on that one. -- Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development - ASL, Inc. Toll free: 1-877-

Re: Linux-Kernel Archive: ATA overlap/queuing support ?

2001-05-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
t I have the docs, and it is supported in ide-floppy and ide-tape. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development - ASL, Inc. Toll free: 1-877-ASL-3535 1757 Houret Co

Updates...ide.2.4.5-p1.05132001...FastTrak...CSB5...AMD761

2001-05-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
code coming to Linux. :-( I hope to have all of this cleaned up and ready for submission for the pre3/4/5 patch releases. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development ---

Re: HPT370 raid hack

2001-05-07 Thread Andre Hedrick
; get a mininum of documentation. > > Andre Hedric, Ajran van de Ven, ...: > I am sorry that I did not had much time lately to get some information > of the > raid layout written together. But I did not forget you guys... > > regard, > Wilfried > Andre Hedrick

Re: Hotswap ATA status ?

2001-05-07 Thread Andre Hedrick
huge page for the glue, I will post one. The service utility is not ready yet so it is no good without one. Regards, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development PS I left a dump here and there.but that was going to be WTMI - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lin

Re: Help with Fasttrack/100 Raid on Linux

2001-04-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Wilfried Weissmann wrote: > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > Wilfried, > > > > Why a module? > > The idea behind that was that, if it is a seperate module, then it would be easier >to maintain for > me. I am a guy that always needs the

Re: Help with Fasttrack/100 Raid on Linux

2001-04-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
Wilfried, Why a module? Why not have the detection and flags that hook the md driver for linux and use linux's software raid? Cheers, On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Wilfried Weissmann wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:

Re: 2.4.3 VFS bug and namei.c bug

2001-04-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
941-9183 > EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WEB < > http://www.personus.com <http://www.personus.com/> > > > > 1 + 1 = 3 for huge values of 1 > > > Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development --

Re: via udma100 fix

2001-04-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
orkaround (in german): > http://home.tiscalinet.de/au-ja/review-kt133a-4.html > > -Dan Hi Dan, This was sent to me the other day, is this waht you are talking about? Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development

Re: Linux-Kernel Archive: No 100 HZ timer !

2001-04-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
d to it. Its just that interrupts are only "set > up" when a "real" time event is due. Great HZ always defines units of jiffies, but that is worthless if there is not a ruleset that tells me a value to divide by to return it to a specific quantity of time. Cheers, Andre

Re: Help with Fasttrack/100 Raid on Linux

2001-04-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
ions being eaten. Sorry, but http://www.linux-ide.org/ clearly states that nothing below a given line supports hardware/bios-soft raid. Regards, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: > Andre, > > Thank you for your quick response. I was af

Re: Linux-Kernel Archive: No 100 HZ timer !

2001-04-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
oing nuts over the issues... Just trying to keep the flamage down and stuff like that Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development - ASL, Inc. Toll free: 1-877

Re: Help with Fasttrack/100 Raid on Linux

2001-04-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
Stephen, Sorry but that is a closed source driver and you have to goto Promise, LOL. Last time I talked to them they sent me an email virus that choked a drive. Scan your mail first and then count your fingers if you have to shake hands with somebody their Andre Hedrick Linux ATA

Re: ide.2.2.19.04092001.patch

2001-04-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Shane Wegner wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 03:05:53PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > So you want a VIA-old and VIA-new ?? > > Hi, > > Is the version of the driver in the latest IDE patch v4.x? > That's odd as that driver doe

Re: ide.2.2.19.04092001.patch

2001-04-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
So you want a VIA-old and VIA-new ?? On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Shane Wegner wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 05:33:13PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > This is up with some updates > Hi, > > This isn't working here on my Abit VP6 board. The > ide.2.2.18.1221

Re: (ide.2.2.19.04092001.patch:) DiskPerf compile problem

2001-04-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
http://www.xx.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/utility-patches/DiskPerf-1.0.4.tar.gz http://www.xx.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/utility-patches/DiskPerf-1.0.4.tar.bz2 Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development

Re: Linux-Kernel Archive: No 100 HZ timer !

2001-04-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
a known base so I can have your storage work and not corrupt. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development - ASL, Inc. Toll free: 1-877-ASL-3535 1757 Houret Court

ide.2.2.19.04092001.patch

2001-04-09 Thread Andre Hedrick
Test = 85.52 MB/Sec Outer Diameter Sequential DMA Read Test = 48.45 MB/Sec Inner Diameter Sequential DMA Read Test = 23.81 MB/Sec There is about a 35%-40% under reporting of performance from kernel to user-space ioctl calls. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this

Re: linux 2.4.3 crashed my hard disk

2001-04-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Ion Badulescu wrote: > On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > You really ought to rename this parameter to pcibus. Even though it doesn't > > > do justice to the VLB bus, the potential for user error is much smaller. > > &g

Re: linux 2.4.3 crashed my hard disk

2001-04-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Ion Badulescu wrote: > On Fri, 06 Apr 2001 21:30:24 -0700, Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You killed yourself > > > > You do not have a host that will do idebus=66 > > You really ought to rename this parameter

Re: linux 2.4.3 crashed my hard disk

2001-04-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
You killed yourself You do not have a host that will do idebus=66 You have now dived you clock timing in half. You should expect to have a driver time out before the device is completed. -- Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development

linux-2.4.3-ac3.tfhsio2/drivers/ide/Makefile

2001-04-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
Alan, Since this is no more than a chipset that is identical to piix.c Why is it setup as a loadable object? obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IT8172)+= it8172.o and not like below? ide-obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IT8172) += it8172.o Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development

Re: 2.2.19 + ide 2.2.19 03252001 patch problem

2001-04-05 Thread Andre Hedrick
t; > finally, I made my kernel with ide.2.2.18.1221 and all seems to be OK (one week > now). The diffs between the 2 versions were too important and I have not > investigated further into this, but I'm ready to make some tests if ne

2.2.19 borks am-utils building :-(

2001-04-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
The subject says it all Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Future reports

2001-04-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
Please send reports directly to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I hope to figure out a news reader and have it parse real problems, but for now I am dropping off lkml for sometime as I am tired. Regards, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

CFA Membership (Re: Cool Road Runner)

2001-04-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
my personal financial limit. If you want to give me the SPEC to review and no NDA cool, but CFA and SDA I have not interest in the legal action that will happen I expose SDA for what it is ... Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linu

Re: Cool Road Runner

2001-04-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
, You are correct and I freely admit that I have problems in communication on paper, but do better in person as you found out, I hope. I think I will do what most every one else does is drop from lkml and only deal with direct mail. Also it was good to meet you this weekend. Cheers, Andre Hedri

Re: Cool Road Runner

2001-04-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > On Sun 2001-04-01 (23:55), Andre Hedrick wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > > > > > And BTW: Isn't Andre's writing style very lovely ? > > > > DGD, and who made you a grammer

Re: Promise 20267 "working" but no UDMA

2001-04-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Andrew Chan wrote: > Anybody manage to get UDMA 66/100 working with an on-board Promise 20267 > chip? > > Hardware: Tyan Tiger LE (with ServerWorks OSB4 _and_ Promise 20267 on-board) > > Kernel: 2.4.3 with ide.2.4.3-p8.all.03242001.patch by Andre Hedrick

Re: Cool Road Runner

2001-04-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
to trying an orthoginal rotation to one's person. > Steffen, starting with fresh hope into a new week Later.. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: Bug in EZ-Drive remapping code (ide.c)

2001-03-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
a track has an odd number of sectors, linux adds the first > sector of the next track to this bunch. This sector contains the boot > sector of the first FAT partition. The result of the remapping is > that grub can't access that partition. > > Please CC me on reply. > &

Re: Linux Kernel IRC Room?

2001-03-28 Thread Andre Hedrick
sks 'Dude you assume Linux Sleeps?' hahahaha Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Larger dev_t

2001-03-28 Thread Andre Hedrick
(M) == IDE7_MAJOR || \ + (M) == IDE8_MAJOR || (M) == IDE9_MAJOR) + +static __inline__ int ide_blk_major(int m) +{ + return IDE_DISK_MAJOR(m); +} + #endif Well I banged my head and learned a scsi-trick.... Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL K

Re: Compact flash disk and slave drives in 2.4.2

2001-03-28 Thread Andre Hedrick
it. So if you want to believe that CFA is ATA fine. I will help you and tell you that CFA is ATA. Now use the append line and be happy. I will not change the code because it will break more things. The append line is the undo. I can not be clearer. Regards, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Developme

Re: Larger dev_t

2001-03-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
net}' which has a string name for a real mknod thingy that includes the major|minor of the animal. Is this simpler than the problem? Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development

Re: Larger dev_t

2001-03-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
you want dynamic device points and dynamic majors? Thus would be nice because the ridge structure now prevents a lot if things from developing. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development - ASL, Inc.

Re: slow latencies on IDE disk drives( controller? )

2001-03-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
would be valid in at least two cases and that make a good case for inclusion. > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > > > > > This is your fix > > > > Andre Hedrick > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&

Re: Compact flash disk and slave drives in 2.4.2

2001-03-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
hdx=flash is only a flag to deal with flash. a better description is probe-slave-with-master-flash, or to-hell-with-flash-go-look. On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Richard A. Smith wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:17:48 -0800 (PST), Andre Hedrick wrote: > > >not acceptable. If you have a c

Re: Compact flash disk and slave drives in 2.4.2

2001-03-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
scribes the other combination that causes > a problem where you have a normal disk as master > and the CF as slave: > http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/2000week25/0973.html > > Again the problem unresolved: > http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/2000week26/

Re: Compact flash disk and slave drives in 2.4.2

2001-03-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
oprobe = 1; > } > } > > But do we need this check? Is it just for speed. If you have an "ordinary" > harddrive as master with no slave, will the check for slave cause the same > "long system lockup", and if not, why. > > Padraig. > >

Re: slow latencies on IDE disk drives( controller? )

2001-03-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
* Copyright (C) 1998-99 Andre Hedrick, Integrater * Notes: * - I recently got a 16.8G IBM DTTA, so I was able to test it with * a large and fast disk - the results look great, so I'd say the * driver is working fine :-) * hdparm -t reports 8.17 MB/sec at about 6% CPU usage for the

Re: Compact flash disk and slave drives in 2.4.2

2001-03-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
Because in laptops, the primary use of CFA. Laptops using CFA do not have slaves. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development - ASL, Inc. Toll free: 1-877-ASL-3535 1757

Re: Promise RAID controller howto?

2001-03-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
board ... it is a raid lie > I know, that "input high == UltraATA core, input low = RAID core" > according to Andre Hedrick but I really don't care about the RAID > core. I want to use this controller to drive JBOD. Wrong, if Promise will opensource the signatures the

Re: Lovely crash with 2.4.2-ac24.

2001-03-26 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 09:46:54AM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > Zephaniah, > > > > Does this happen in a non-ac kernel? > > I have not updated code since around 2.4.0, but other have. > > You point o

Re: Lovely crash with 2.4.2-ac24.

2001-03-26 Thread Andre Hedrick
. Hull. > > -- > PGP EA5198D1-Zephaniah E. Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>-GPG E65A7801 > Keys available at http://whitestar.soark.net/~warp/public_keys. >CCs of replies from mailing lists are encouraged. > > Mercury: gpm isn't a very good web brow

Re: slow latencies on IDE disk drives( controller? )

2001-03-26 Thread Andre Hedrick
large for e-mail. The content of the barf is not important, but the process you are doing to create this issue is. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo in

Re: UDMA 100 / PIIX4 question

2001-03-21 Thread Andre Hedrick
v/s outer v/s inner zones produce different transfer throughputs. > Regards, > > Geoff Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: VIA686B + 2.2.18 (was: VIA686A chipset crash under 2.4.2-ac20)

2001-03-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
r Diameter Sequential DMA Read Test = 17.72 MB/Sec (14.10 Seconds) When you adjust for memory delays (of 35-40%) then you get those number. and those numbers are valid inside for kernel-kernel access, not kernel-user-space. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from

RE: Linux should better cope with power failure

2001-03-19 Thread Andre Hedrick
ts > when I do this." "Then don't do it." > > Satch > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTE

update failures on kernel.org patches

2001-03-19 Thread Andre Hedrick
ftp://www.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/ata/2.2.18/ ftp://www.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/ata/2.4.3/ Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development - ASL, Inc. Toll free: 1

ide.2.4.3-p4.all.03132001.patch ... Re: ide.2.2.18.02122001.patch

2001-03-19 Thread Andre Hedrick
ide.2.4.3-p4.03132001.patch ide.2.4.3-p4.all.03132001.patch On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > Write-caching flushing upon closing/unmounting each partition. > > On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Matthias Andree wrote: > > > On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: &

Re: ide.2.2.18.02122001.patch

2001-03-19 Thread Andre Hedrick
Write-caching flushing upon closing/unmounting each partition. On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Matthias Andree wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > Has arrived... > > What's new with that? > > -- > Matthias Andree > Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Deve

ide.2.2.18.02122001.patch

2001-03-19 Thread Andre Hedrick
Has arrived... Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH] off-by-1 error in ide-probe (2.4.x)

2001-03-18 Thread Andre Hedrick
for the main loops is spread like hot butter, it covers up a lot of issues and threads get messy. I had all but given up on chasing them down and then resolved to start from scratch. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kern

Re: [PATCH] off-by-1 error in ide-probe (2.4.x)

2001-03-18 Thread Andre Hedrick
tors in PIO is filling the sector_count register with '0' == 'zero'. As long as 255 == 255 and 0 == 256 for total sectors to transfer all is cool. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bo

Re: IDE poweroff -> hangup

2001-03-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
= 8421:8421 RUMS: R == Reserved U == Ultra M == MultiWord S == SingleWord > tried to mount the specified drive. > > Any suggestion Read before blowing heat, I wear asbestos! > Regardz > daCodez > > > *

Re: 2.4.2/2.4.3-pre4 IDE DMA problems w/ PDC20267+IBM DTLA

2001-03-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
16/63 > hde: unknown partition table > A Register SYNC_IN ERRDY_EN IORDY_EN PREFETCH_EN PA0 PIO(A) = 1 > AP 0001 > B Register MB0 DMA(B) = 1 PB2 PIO(B) = 4 > BP 00100100 > C Register IORDYp MC0 DMA(C) = 1 > CP 0101 &

Re: VIA686A chipset crash under 2.4.2-ac20

2001-03-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
Yes you should try because there is a fundamental difference in design of VIA between 2.2.x + patches and 2.4.x On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Kirill Kozmin wrote: > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > Okay not to worry, I now have a my hands on a VIA 686B and will look at > > the changes th

Re: IDE UDMA on a CMD-648 Chip

2001-03-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
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Re: Re[2]: VIA686A chipset crash under 2.4.2-ac20

2001-03-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
Bb5F+l01 > sfzZmqodu4FGvGriFTUAbZNNtrPcE4os9dcnxjHtlfyW4PZ+YyWUjtIekx1ZdbLI > I21hwuA2dA+lyLM5jaAS3aC5mPzfauVMRIbozegtPnaQViWUShSM8x1XWHtsQFBy > iam5xbL8gXo= > =Qxq1 > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development -

Re: VIA686A chipset crash under 2.4.2-ac20

2001-03-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
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Re: IDE poweroff -> hangup

2001-03-14 Thread Andre Hedrick
PCI-DMA space locally, but it is not a fatal barf, but a noisy messy one. I will pop a nasty patch to get you through the almost death, but it is nasty and not the preferred unknow solution. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linu

Re: IDE poweroff -> hangup

2001-03-14 Thread Andre Hedrick
revert to the default values from POST? You have successfully unsynced the HOST and the DEVICE as the timings for the transfer rates. So it should HANG and DIE! Just be glad that the kernel will crash and not eat your data. Regards, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Pozsar

new generic content schemes popping up everywhere...

2001-03-13 Thread Andre Hedrick
e interest of some publishing concerns, among them Time Inc.and McGraw-Hill. Se if these bozos get into the kernel anytime soon... Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac12 (vt82c686 info)

2001-03-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick Linux

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