sata on -stable

[Duncan Barclay]

From: "Soren Schmidt" <sos at spider.deepcore.dk>


>It seems Duncan Barclay wrote:
>[ Charset windows-1252 unsupported, converting... ]

>> Thanks Soren, this seems to work. There is a load of chat about incorrect
>> cable types, but the drives are nice and fast according to a simple dd
>> if=/dev/zero bs=64k ...

> Okies, the cable mumble is a "feature" of the -stable ATA driver not
> having the right infrastructure for this. However I could add a hack
> that skips the test on pure SATA controllers, but it wont be pretty...

Oh, I'm not worried about the mumbling. Hopefully the box won't be rebooted
very
often!

Duncan