Re: IDE Patch (fwd)

[Andre Hedrick]

Greetings Matthew,

Thanks for the feedback, but lkml needs it or it will not be adopted.
I know the driver is stable and effectively perfect in operations.
So I do not understand the total ignore I receive about it.

respectfully

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Matthew Hunter wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:15:38AM -0800, Andre Hedrick <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 14:17:00 -0500 (EST)
> > From: Rob Radez <[e-mail]>
> > To: Andre Hedrick <[e-mail]>
> > Subject: IDE Patch
> > 
> > Hi,
> > I'm using your ide.2.4.16.12102001 patch with a Promise PDC20269
> > controller and a Maxtor 160GB hard drive on 2.4.17, and I just wanted to
> > tell you that it's working great so far.
> > 
> > Thanks for all the great code,
> > Rob Radez
> 
> Thought I would take the opportunity to ditto this
> privately.  I'm using your IDE patch with 2.4.17, on a system
> with a three-drive RAID5 and a two-drive RAID0.  I gained about 3
> mb/s on two drives individually.  I haven't rebooted to compare
> raid performance (though I know it is faster -- just not by how
> much). 
> 
> It's been rock solid, no stability issues.
> 
> Looks like great work.
> 
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