Re: Libata PATA status (pata_artop)

[Michael-Luke Jones <mlj28@cam.ac.uk>]

On 5 Jul 2007, at 23:27, Rod Whitby wrote:

> Alan Cox wrote:
> > Chipsets
> > ========
> > ARTOP
> > 	No reports, but nobody appears to be using one
>
> The NSLU2-Linux project (http://www.nslu2-linux.org) relies on the
> pata-artop driver for the arm/ixp4xx-based Iomega NAS100d and D-Link
> DSM-G600 NAS devices (both of which are supported in recent mainline
> kernels).
>
> Latest kernels (2.6.22-rc5 is the latest we've tested) have no  
> reported
> problems with pata-artop.  We have a handful of people (including
> myself) who we know are using 2.6.22-rc5 on those devices and are
> booting from the internal drive using the pata-artop driver.

Though we have no reported problems, we are carrying a local patch to  
the pata_artop driver:

http://trac.nslu2-linux.org/kernel/browser/trunk/patches/2.6.22/15- 
nas100d-pata-artop-single-port.patch

This used to be because of a long delay when probing the non-existent  
second ATA port on these embedded ARM devices, but the comment in the  
patch has since been updated suggesting some negative interaction  
with USB (??).

I don't have this machine so can't comment further on this issue,

M-L

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