Re: Integrating Andre IDE patch into 2.2.18/19 kernel

2000-10-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
2.2 and 2.4 are not the same anymore with ide-pci init. 2.4 got broken. In case you have not read, the backport is suspended for now. So you can not have you UltraDMA in 2.2 if you wanted. Instead of bitching about the problem, way not attempt to narrow the scope where you think is was broken.

Re: Integrating Andre IDE patch into 2.2.18/19 kernel

2000-10-06 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:56:30PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Jeff Nguyen wrote: > > >Hi Alan. > > > >I hope you will consider to integrate Andre IDE patche into the 2.2.18 or > >2.2.19 kernel. PLEASE NOT ! the 2.4 IDE driver isn't working for me at all!! at the con

Re: Integrating Andre IDE patch into 2.2.18/19 kernel

2000-10-05 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Jeff Nguyen wrote: >Hi Alan. > >I hope you will consider to integrate Andre IDE patche into the 2.2.18 or >2.2.19 kernel. Be advised that the big IDE patch for 2.2 (at least as of a month ago) contains a backport of the 2.4 ide-tape driver. That driver is BROKEN -- if the las

Re: Integrating Andre IDE patch into 2.2.18/19 kernel

2000-10-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Jeff Nguyen wrote: > I hope you will consider to integrate Andre IDE patche into the 2.2.18 or > 2.2.19 kernel. For Linux to become a successful desktop platform, it needs > better IDE support. Andre has done a tremendous job in getting the IDE > driver support for so many chip

Integrating Andre IDE patch into 2.2.18/19 kernel

2000-10-04 Thread Jeff Nguyen
Hi Alan. I hope you will consider to integrate Andre IDE patche into the 2.2.18 or 2.2.19 kernel. For Linux to become a successful desktop platform, it needs better IDE support. Andre has done a tremendous job in getting the IDE driver support for so many chipsets such as Promise, CMD, VIA, and H