Marvell PATA controller (88SE6101) is not supported

I am apologizing for my ignorance - how does one apply this patch?

Thank you

Patch applied. I cannot guarantee that this will make it into release.

In case this won't get into the release, what is the most convinient way to apply the backport that Sergey Kiselev posted?

Thank you

Few words about installing it:

1. Make sure that gcc & friends installed:
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
2. Download and unzip the driver:
$ wget http://www.malinov.com/linux/pata_marvell-0.0.4t.tar.gz
$ tar zxfv pata_marvell-0.0.4t.tar.gz
3. Compile:
$ cd pata_marvell-0.0.4t/
$ make
If everything goes ok, you will get module called 'pata_marvell.ko'
You can load it by using 'sudo insmod pata_marvell.ko' command or copy it to "/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/scsi" and add it to initramfs, so it will be loaded automatically during system boot.

Thanks a lot - working great!

I couldn't get it to compile against my vanilla 2.6.18.3, but a bit of hacking got it to work. Now I've just got to work out why the DVD burner attached to it will read perfectly, but not burn ;-)

I've attached the diff I ended up with, just in case it's useful to anyone else.

And how does one add it to initramfs please? Thanks.

P.S: I did "whereis initramfs" on my terminal and got nothing.

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:35:39AM -0000, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> And how does one add it to initramfs please? Thanks.
>
> P.S: I did "whereis initramfs" on my terminal and got nothing.

All did to get it into my initramfs was to run depmod(8), and then use
update-initramfs(8). My next boot picked it all up.

Cheers.

Dameon.

At https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/58358/comments/13 Ben said this is fixed and uploaded to dapper-proposed and edgy-proposed repos. Just for info.

Marking this as 'Fix Released'. If this isn't the case, please feel free to reopen. Thanks.