RE: [patch 2.6.22-rc6] ATA: add a PCI ID for Intel Santa Rosa PATA controller

-----Original Message-----
From: chunkeey@web.de [mailto:chunkeey@web.de] 
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 1:30 PM
To: Thorsten Leemhuis
Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis; Chuck Ebbert; Jeff Garzik; IDE/ATA 
development list; Gaston, Jason D; Alan Cox; 
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; chunkeey@web.de
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.22-rc6] ATA: add a PCI ID for Intel 
Santa Rosa PATA controller

On Wednesday, 4. July 2007, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

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Maybe Alan or someone from Intel can answer that and thus 

tell us how to

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move forward; it would be really nice to get the patch that 

started this

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thread (it got posted by Chuck again today) could go into 

2.6.22, but I

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assume the time runs away...

Jeff is on holiday and Intel doesn't respond at all... 

So, if someone has a ICH5 or ICH7/7-R with a ATA133 captable 
HDD... could
you please try the following patch? (Of course, I don't know 
if it works,...
It may cause data loss, serve corruption, or damage your 
controller/hdd/pc,
so make backups and keep a first-aid kit handy!) 
 

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On the other hand, we can leave it, because of a 

"off-by-one error" in ata_piix.c, 

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do_pata_set_dmamode, line ~770:
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Thanks,
Chr.

I quickly tried this patch on an ICH7-R system with an ATA133 Maxtor HD
and it did not seem to do anything bad.  I see no difference in function
or performance with the patch.

Jason