Re: [ANNOUNCE] using 2.5.25 with IDE

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl)
Date: Tue Jul 09 2002 - 09:40:28 EST


On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:

> > Contrary to the popular belief 2.5.25 has only Martin's IDE-93
> > and has broken locking...
> >
> > If you want to run IDE on 2.5.25 get and apply:
> >
> > IDE-94 by Martin
> > IDE-95/96/97/98-pre by me
> >
> > from:
> > http://home.elka.pw.edu.pl/~bzolnier/ata/
>
> ...or run it with 2.4 IDE core as previously announced by Jens Axboe :-)

2.4 IDE + 2.5 block layer = PIO still broken :-)
(broken error recovery and data integrity on error)

Mostly you dont care unless CRC or sector error bites you
and you are screwed ;-)

But do not worry, I'm near to fixing it for 2.5.

Greets

--
Bartlomiej

> roy > > -- > Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester > > Computers are like air conditioners. > They stop working when you open Windows.

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