Broken F8 driver for e-Sata chip

[Dean S. Messing]

Alan Cox wrote:
>> 
>> Can someone (Alan?) give me some help on this.
>> What is the current status of this driver?
>
>Tejun Heo got the driver working sort of based on the minimal data sheet
>available. Initio promised info but then went silent whenever asked but
>recently threw an updated driver over the wall. From that Tejun updated
>the in kernel driver and it now works well.
>
>So basically you need a pretty current kernel (eg 2.6.26.x) and all will
>spring to life.


Thanks very much, Alan.  I guessed when I titled the subject line that
you would respond.  In my Google poking, your name came up a
couple of times regarding this chip.

I suppose Fedora will package 2.6.26.x for F8 at some point. (I wonder
how long.)  Till then I have a workaround:  the machine has an
internal SATA port on the Mother board and I can buy a passive cable
that "converts" to the e-Sata form factor.

Again, thanks.
Dean