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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: PATA handling on ICH5R in 2.6.8rc2
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 19:36:08 +0200
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On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 19:26:10 +0200
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:


> Can't you set it to enhanced mode in the bios, then shows up as a
> seperate device id and just works. I had the same issue until Jeff
> walked me through it :-)

If that really solves all problems why does quirk_intel_ide_combined
not do that automatically? 

It seems very user unfriendly to me to require such magic BIOS 
settings.

-Andi