Re: 2.5.6: ide driver broken in PIO mode

[Martin Dalecki]

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>>In article <Pine.LNX.4.21.0203131339050.26768-100000@serv>,
>>Roman Zippel  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>>>I first noticed the problem on my Amiga, but I can reproduce it on an ia32
>>>machine, when I turn off dma with hdparm.
>>>
>>With PIO, the current IDE/bio stuff doesn't like the write-multiple
>>interface and has bad interactions. 
>>
>>Jens, you talked about a patch from Supparna two weeks ago, any
>>progress?
>>
> 
> I can fix this tomorrow, the stuff from Supparna was just a small bio
> helper to retrieve the segments in a request. Just what we need for
> write-multi.

Yeep - I'm glad you are around :-).