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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Malcolm Gillies <malcolm@g7.org>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CompactFlash and HD unhappy together on the same IDE channel
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:26:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F693BD.8070604@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070922191248.5f2bc74a@the-village.bc.nu>

Alan Cox wrote:
>> I've acquired a new CF card that is capable of UDMA2, and with the same 
>> connectors, wiring and adaptor (i.e. I popped out the MWDMA card and 
>> inserted the UDMA one), I can now boot and read data on both devices 
>> without error at reasonable speeds.
> 
> Fascinating. Does point more to a driver funny you are right. At the
> moment I'm at a loss to guess what

We seem to have had a lot of reports of CF cards failing with MDMA modes recently.
Some of these reports are because of SATA<>PATA bridge chips that don't support MDMA,
others are due to unknowns.

The solution is beginning to look more and more obvious:  default to not use MDMA
modes for CF devices at boot.  And eventually provide a sysfs or libata parameter
(or support/snoop SET_XFER_MODE) to change the mode later.

Cheers

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-23 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-18  7:00 CompactFlash and HD unhappy together on the same IDE channel Malcolm Gillies
2007-08-18 20:05 ` Matt Sealey
2007-08-18 22:41 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-19  1:16 ` Mark Lord
2007-08-19 10:43   ` Malcolm Gillies
2007-08-19 14:18     ` Mark Lord
2007-08-20  7:34       ` Malcolm Gillies
2007-08-19 16:56   ` Alan Cox
2007-09-15 23:54     ` Malcolm Gillies
2007-09-22 18:12       ` Alan Cox
2007-09-23 14:49         ` Matt Sealey
2007-09-23 16:26         ` Mark Lord [this message]
2007-09-23 17:40           ` Alan Cox
2007-09-24 22:03             ` Mark Lord
2007-09-24 22:29               ` Alan Cox

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