Bug#444182: PATA support broken in ATA_PIIX

2010-02-02 Thread Frank Loeffler
Hi, On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 03:24:48AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Having two drivers for the same PCI device id does not result in a race > condition. udev + modprobe will load them both, in unspecified order. If I remember correctly, what people observed was that this order is not only not s

Bug#444182: PATA support broken in ATA_PIIX

2010-02-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 21:08 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > While I'm not convinced that there is still a need for a patch like > drivers-ata-ata_piix-postpone-pata.patch (whose name seems misleading > BTW), seeing how most/all other distributions don't bother with such > a thing, I'm willing to bel

Bug#444182: PATA support broken in ATA_PIIX

2010-02-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
While I'm not convinced that there is still a need for a patch like drivers-ata-ata_piix-postpone-pata.patch (whose name seems misleading BTW), seeing how most/all other distributions don't bother with such a thing, I'm willing to believe that there might still be occasional situations where the tw

Bug#444182: PATA support broken in ATA_PIIX

2009-09-25 Thread Tech2009
I just came across this thread and wanted to report that this bug is affecting a number of my servers as well. The servers come from the factory using a PATA flash drive for bootup and software, and use 4 SATA drives for raid data store. This is a nice and efficient setup since the SATA drives can