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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH libata-dev#upstream-fixes] pata_amd: fix an obvious bug in cable detection
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:50:41 +0100
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On Sunday 25 February 2007, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > Why can't libata do the right thing and just send IDENTIFY command
> > to the slave device first?
> 
> That's my plan B.  I'm just not sure whether it would do any good, would it?

Probably it would but to know for sure you would need to verify it on some
of the affected system (shouldn't be problem given number of the bugreports).

Bart