Re: New ac patch???

Marcel J.E. Mol (marcel@mesa.nl)
Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:23:33 +0100

On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 11:12:28AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Not exaclty. It is a 48Gig drive in a dell inspiron 8000. I think it is
> > > IBM but the logs do not show a brandname. I can try open up the case tonight
> > > if you want to know for sure?
> >
> > It's an IBM IC25T048ATDA05-0 to be precise.
>
> Thanks. It seems IBM laptop drives are the ones that specifically need this
> fix. That ties in with the windows 98 reports/microsoft fixes.

Would that be enough reason to add only the specific flushing code of
the taskfile patch (if at all possible) to the kernel? Maybe Andre is
willing to extract the relevant code in a seperate patch...

-Marcel

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