On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 12:08:07AM -0500, Alberto Alonso wrote:
> > > * Internal serverworks PATA controller on a netengine server. The
> > > server if off waiting to get picked up, so I can't get the important
> > > details.
> >
> > 1 PATA failure.
>
> I was surprised on this one, I did have good luck with with PATA in
> the past. The kernel is whatever came standard in Fedora Core 2
The keyword here is probably not "PATA" but "Serverworks"... AFAIR that
chipset was always considered somewhat problematic. You may want to try
with the libata driver, it has a nice comment:
* Note that we don't copy the old serverworks code because the old
* code contains obvious mistakes
But even the new driver retained this coment from the old driver:
* Documentation:
* Available under NDA only. Errata info very hard to get.
It isn't exactly giving me warm feelings to trust data to this chipset...
Gabor
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