From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Subject: Re: Failed to set xfermode on LITE-ON LTR-40125S Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:33:14 +0000 Message-ID: <20070126113314.05c22e67@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070125201750.2adbd57c@buffy.scoobygang> <45B97A73.6050703@tw.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:41825 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933183AbXAZLVm (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:21:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <45B97A73.6050703@tw.ibm.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: albertl@mail.com Cc: John Williams , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org > Tejun fixed the problem by ATA_FLAG_SETXFER_POLLING for pata_via. > Maybe the same fix works for pata_sis. > > Could you please try the attached patch, thanks. I wonder what is really going on here. drivers/ide has some slightly different handling and notes about problems with some drives. The polling SETXFER is I fear just hiding the real issue which we've seen on the VIA, SiS and also with a weird timing fix on the sl8c205 Alan