Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Mar 2004 17:28:39 +0100 | From | Rumi Szabolcs <> | Subject | Re: Marvell PATA-SATA bridge meets 2.4.x |
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On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 19:55:00 -0800 Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> wrote:
> Rumi Szabolcs wrote: > > As it can be seen below, a native SATA150 drive is connected > > to a SATA port implemented using that Marvell chip hooked up > > to the ICH4's parallel ATA133 port and this way the drive is > > only recognized (and used) as UDMA33: > > > > hdc: 312581808 sectors (160042 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(33) > > > > As far as I can remember someone (Jeff Garzik?) suspected the > > SATA cable not being recognized as a 80-conductor thus >=UDMA66 > > capable cable. Then it was told that there is a fix underway that > > will be included in the 2.4.23 kernel. The above snippet shows > > that the 2.4.25 kernel still has this problem. Any comments? > > You want to use a 2.6 kernel and talk to Bart, and Jeff about this...
Well, I don't really want a 2.6 kernel on that machine (yet) because in my opinion it is not stable enough for a production system.
Would it be hard to fix that in 2.4?
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