On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 12:08:07AM -0500, Alberto Alonso wrote:

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* Internal serverworks PATA controller on a netengine server. The
  server if off waiting to get picked up, so I can't get the important
  details.

1 PATA failure.

I was surprised on this one, I did have good luck with with PATA in
the past. The kernel is whatever came standard in Fedora Core 2

The keyword here is probably not "PATA" but "Serverworks"... AFAIR that
chipset was always considered somewhat problematic. You may want to try
with the libata driver, it has a nice comment:

 *      Note that we don't copy the old serverworks code because the old
 *      code contains obvious mistakes

But even the new driver retained this coment from the old driver:

 * Documentation:
 *      Available under NDA only. Errata info very hard to get.

It isn't exactly giving me warm feelings to trust data to this chipset...

Gabor

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