From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Albert Lee" Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] ata_set_mode() to send SET FEATURES first Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:57:37 +0800 Message-ID: <007c01c4caf1$46ec31f0$fa534109@tw.ibm.com> References: <004701c4c8bb$640d2880$6801a8c0@tw.ibm.com> <4196B3A7.1020303@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from bluehawaii.tikira.net ([61.62.22.51]:39661 "EHLO bluehawaii.tikira.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261556AbUKOI6o (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Nov 2004 03:58:44 -0500 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik , Doug Maxey Cc: IDE Linux I got it. It is the right thing to disable that hardware feature, rather than change the sequence in ata_set_mode(). I just checked the Promise manual but cannot find any hint to disable that feature. I'll ask Promise engineers how to do that. Thanks for the comments. Albert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Garzik" To: "Albert Lee" Cc: "IDE Linux" Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 9:23 AM Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] ata_set_mode() to send SET FEATURES first > I basically agree with Doug, but for a different reason. > > If the hardware is setting an incorrect timing value, then the solution > is to disable that hardware feature, and manually set the timings. > > Jeff > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >