Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 1 Sep 2002 00:05:07 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.xx IDE development policy |
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Peter,
The water is warm, get wet!
As far as Promise, I am working on a contract w/ their development group to solve all of these issues for good.
I find it interesting that 2.4.16 is rock solid.
Since I am still picking up the pieces and sorting out patch trees, if you have a copy of that patch and would send it back my way. It will go a long way to solving the mystery.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Peter wrote:
> > I'm confident that the development of IDE drivers for 2.4 is in excellent > hands, with Alan and Andre working together. Still, the IDE drivers on the > popular Promise cards have been unstable for a while now, and things have > clearly gone from quite good to worse. > > Andre appears to be faced with very buggy and idiosyncratic hardware, and > the recent problems have been introduced in the attempt to accomodate for > this. Personally, for instance, I'm still running 2.4.16 with Andre's > patch on a Promise '69 and a 160GB drive, and I've never had a hint of a > problem -- heavy use over networks for months. Now people are reporting > serious problems with this card. > > Non-functioning harddrives is obviously not as bad as losing data, but > still this is a bummer, man. How about a development policy to consolidate > progress and reduce the complexity of the task? Something like, Promise > cards that operate to spec get left alone. Idiosyncratic cards get an > experimental label and warnings, maybe only unofficial support through > patches, or they get marked as bad. > > Add a diagnostic to the documentation. Let people bug the vendor about out > of spec hardware. > > Linus commented earlier on how ATA development drives people up the wall; > we just had one person burn out. So let's do something about it. > > Cheers, > Peter > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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