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["Greg Freemyer" <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/22/07, John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Monday 22 January 2007 06:28, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > There was a major SATA driver update between 10.1 and 10.2. Or at
> > least there was in the vanilla kernels those 2 versions were based on.
>
> Hmmm, he said it was a new board.  Why would a new sata driver have problems
> with that, especially when the older distros did not?
>
> This new driver sounds like a retrograde movement.

It was a major rewrite of some of the core SATA functionality.
Obviously it was believed to be a major improvement in general, but
there have been a number of reports of regressions.  I assume his
board was one of the regressions.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century
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