[2015 09 21 10:48:42] <[7]> [Saint]: regarding that patched rockbox on github, that one is really funny
[2015 09 21 10:49:00] <[7]> let me try to explain the situation:
[2015 09 21 10:49:14] <[7]> we had two bugs in the ata driver, completely unrelated to each other
[2015 09 21 10:49:39] <[7]> one was causing the mess with tarkan's adapters, one was causing minor performance issues at worst
[2015 09 21 10:49:59] <[7]> as I did a major overhaul of that driver, I pushed both fixes to gerrit as a single changeset
[2015 09 21 10:50:40] <[7]> the latter fix then uncovered that weirdness of the CE-ATA drives, which basically just worked due to the second bug in the past
[2015 09 21 10:51:04] <[7]> reverting that fix was by no means a proper solution for that issue, but to make matters worse, the tarkan fixes were reverted on that branch as well
[2015 09 21 10:51:17] <[7]> then we realized what was causing that CE-ATA problem and fixed it
[2015 09 21 10:52:11] <[7]> the fix got pulled into that branch - but apparently the branch maintainer didn't realize that and merged those fixes on top of the reverted old fixes
[2015 09 21 10:53:21] <[7]> so that branch will be completely broken with tarkan adapters, have minor issues with all other drives, and will work with CE-ATA drives equally well as the official builds ;)
[2015 09 21 10:53:48] <[7]> so yeah, there's absolutely no point in using the master branch in that repository
[2015 09 21 10:54:07] <[Saint]> I'll bundle that up into a pastebin and drop it into the guy's forum thread.
[2015 09 21 10:56:48] <[7]> the SSD branch is even more funny
[2015 09 21 10:57:38] <[7]> apart from some unrelated stuff that sneaked into that SSD patch (such as enabling the test-disk plugin, some audio buffer alignment stuff, etc.), it only patches the PP ipod ata driver
[2015 09 21 10:58:04] <[7]> that code isn't being used on ipod classic at all ;)