Re: [Heikki Vatiainen <hessu@cs.tut.fi>] HPT366 UDMA support for boot disks, here is what I did
I think its a mistake to not to provide UDMA/66 support on the boot disks
With my Abit HPT366 controller card, if i dont patch the kernel with the
uniform ide patch then the machines hangs in the middle of the boot. I
assume this occurs to motherboards with the controller built in as well.
The patch also provides support to the promise ATA/66 card as well.
Without ATA/66 support in the kernel debian potato may be uninstallable on
most new machines. (assuming new machines will come with ata/66 support)
Maybe the kenrel guys will fix this by integrating it themselves.
Are there any known cases where introducing the uniform ide patche has
caused instability in other ide chipsets ?
my 2c
Glenn McGrath
----- Original Message -----
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>
Cc: <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>; Heikki Vatiainen <hessu@cs.tut.fi>
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 1999 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Heikki Vatiainen <hessu@cs.tut.fi>] HPT366 UDMA support for
boot disks, here is what I did
> On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 02:21:12PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> >
> > Forwarding this over to the i386 kernel maintainer for comment...
> >
> > Herbert, is it reasonable to patch the kernel this way? Perhaps the
> > patch isn't necessary in the newly minted 2.2.13 ?
>
> The patch in question is not part of 2.2.13. I will not included it at
this
> moment because it may introduce instability for other IDE chipsets.
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