Jeff / et al, My general email to the list still didn't get a response, I figured I'd try a different subject line and CC'ing Jeff directly. I tried 2.6.15.6-libata1.patch and was able to succesfully use a PATA drive from my Promise 20378 card! Thanks for the hard work. It works great for the most part. One big question/problem I had: The kernel raid autodetection doesn't work here. Though I'm not clear if it supports going across controllers. I set up a raid-1 array wtih a drive on my other controller, set the partition type to autodetect, but a reboot left my array with just the drive not on the promise card. Should this work? Am I missing something? Also - is there an effort to get this merged into mainline? Note that my box has a 82801EB/ER controller which is currently my primarycontoller as well as the Promise PDC20378 which is what I'm using this patch for. As a side note: Currently my BIOS's ATA settings are "SATA mode" - I also have "PATA mode" "SATA+PATA mode". I tried SATA+PATA and I get a bunch of IRQ16 ignored messages, a few tracebacks, and a LOT of slowness. I also get 3 scsi controller devices. I haven't tried the PATA mode. Thanks. -- Phil Dibowitz phil@xxxxxxxx Freeware and Technical Pages Insanity Palace of Metallica http://www.phildev.net/ http://www.ipom.com/ "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Suess
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