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From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
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Subject: Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers
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On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, S=F8ren Schmidt wrote:

> I know that change as well, but so far I havn't been able to verify
> that it does what it intends to do, VIA's docs are very vague on this.
>
> There is alot about this on the net, but *lots* of it are just notes
> scribbled together by nerds^H^H^H^H^Hpeople that has no idea what
> they are doing, they just change random bits that other talk about
> and hope it works...
>
> I'll try to get this veryfied and tested here...
>
> -S=F8ren

True, true.  I trust your judgement, I just wasn't sure if you had seen
those patches yet.

On a related note, would it be possible to modify ata_via686b so that it
looks at what it reads from the register and only does the write and print
if the bits are set incorrectly?

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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