Re: pdc20262 problems
Try a fresh kernel from kernel.org.
- if it works : request debian to merge the fix
- if not : reopert the error there (or directly to the driver maintainer)
That's what I would do.
Chers,
David
-----Original Message-----
From: "Macskasi Csaba" <bitumen@tuxworld.homelinux.org>
To: debian-testing@lists.debian.org
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:56:47 +0200
Subject: pdc20262 problems
> Good evening debian-folks!
>
> I have a problem with my Promise U66 PDC20262 ide-controller. In the early
> 2.4-kernels ist was wonderfully supported, but someone messed it up in
> 2.4.26 and since then it is half broken. There was a big issue around this
> driver (pdc202xx_old.c) and in 2.6.7 it was fixed. The problem is actually
> that it was only fixed for >=pdc20264, and I have still problems with my
> pdc20262.
> Without dma the harddisks work wonderfully, but slooooowly. With dma
> enabled I get seek errors and all that stuff, the system becomes unusable.
> Has anyone out there running a pdc20262 with a reasonable new kernel? (I
> really do not want to go back to >2.4.26)
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Csaba
>
>
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