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David Schultz wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2004, Sren Schmidt wrote:
> 
>>David Schultz wrote:
>>
>>>The ata driver has not worked with my hardware for months, as I
>>>reported to you last September.  With Doug's patches, things work
>>>perfectly.  Therefore, I'd really appreciate it if you gave more
>>>consideration to his work.  I would be happy to help merge them
>>>with your changes if you'll allow me.
>>
>>What is your exact problem again ? I dont recall the details and my mail 
>>archive is not online sorry..
> 
> 
> I have two SATA drives that are mirrored via ccd(4).  The
> mirroring apparently introduced some sort of race that led to
> problems, which started when ATAng was committed.  The specific
> symptoms changed as the ata driver evolved, and varied from kernel
> panics in the best case and data corruption in the worst case.
> But the details of the problem aren't as important as the fact
> that some aspect of Doug's patch fixes them!

Have you considered using atacontrol to create an ATA RAID instead ?
Does that work ? on an unpatched kernel ?

-- 
-Søren