From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: possibly a dumb question about sb600/700 Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:44:30 +0900 Message-ID: <473866CE.4010407@gmail.com> References: <47381768.2060803@gmail.com> <20071112131640.3bf0073c@the-village.bc.nu> <4738542A.5050706@gmail.com> <20071112143612.5be65fc8@the-village.bc.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.233]:4329 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751338AbXKLOoj (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:44:39 -0500 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so966914nze for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:44:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20071112143612.5be65fc8@the-village.bc.nu> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: conke.hu@gmail.com, IDE/ATA development list Alan Cox wrote: >> Alright, then. I was just worried about the asymmetry. Oh, this >> _reminds me of another problem regarding enable bits. There's a system >> (wyse thin client) with pata_amd controller where the enable bit isn't >> set by the BIOS and there's no reliable way to identify the system (no >> DMI). Do you know how important is the enabled bits test for these >> controllers? > > If we ignore the tests we get more problems with 30 second timeouts on > other hardware that has incorrect termination or a port which is simply > not wired on the mainboard. > > I bet we can identify the Wyse somehow and I'd rather do that even if it > means looking for magic strings in the BIOS ROM image. Thanks. I don't have direct access to the machine so I guess they'll have to live with temporary workaround for the time being. :-( -- tejun