Re: ICH Intel PATA short cable override...

[Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 13:37:22 +0100
> "Daniel J Blueman" <daniel.blueman@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> We see that in ata_piix.c, there is a whitelist for (laptop) Intel ICH
>> controllers with short cables, tied to specific vendor subsystem IDs.
>> Since my mini-ITX Ibase MI910F has the subsystem IDs specified as
>> Intel [1], this is unusable.
>>
>> I can't find another existing mechanism to add short cable
>> information, to allow UDMA/66 for my on-board CF socket.
> 
> DMI is the other approach (if your box has sane responses to the
> dmidecode command we can do this). 

No, something more flexible is needed here.

For example, I have a Mini-ITX server here, which I personally have
equipped with a 3" 40W IDE cable that connects to a notebook drive.

The system currently uses UDMA just fine with the IDE drivers,
but I have not been able to convert it to use the (stock) libata drivers
because of this silly lack of end-user control.

We really need an override for this -- embedded folks would also apprecaate one.
Ditto for selecting transfer modes.

Cheers