From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: CF flash PATA on libata failure to attach Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:17:33 -0400 Message-ID: <20070629101733.GB25064@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <46815FF4.9040001@rtr.ca> <4681e04b.22b38c0a.78ec.6f76@mx.google.com> <46826F42.70405@rtr.ca> <4682f7a3.15538c0a.2e12.ffff8676@mx.google.com> <4683F1C9.2060505@rtr.ca> <468453f8.13578c0a.3c99.ffffa514@mx.google.com> <46845BEE.90801@rtr.ca> <46846b72.15588c0a.4c19.ffffeeb9@mx.google.com> <46846E3E.3010606@rtr.ca> <4684b61f.05358c0a.4c8f.30a5@mx.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:53612 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755016AbXF2KRh (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:17:37 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4684b61f.05358c0a.4c8f.30a5@mx.google.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Hall Cc: 'Mark Lord' , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, 'Tejun Heo' , 'Alan Cox' On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 05:34:36PM +1000, Andrew Hall wrote: > Further to this the PATA to SATA bridge being used in this case is: > > http://www.jmicron.com/JM20330.html > > ..as you will see only PIO and UDMA modes are supported. In which case their microcontroller in the middle should be masking ident bits. Without a way to detect the presence of the device I don't see an easy way for us to handle it automatically at all