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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: conke.hu@gmail.com, IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: possibly a dumb question about sb600/700
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:36:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071112143612.5be65fc8@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4738542A.5050706@gmail.com>

> 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.

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-12 14:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-12  9:05 possibly a dumb question about sb600/700 Tejun Heo
2007-11-12 13:16 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-12 13:24   ` Tejun Heo
2007-11-12 14:36     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2007-11-12 14:44       ` Tejun Heo
2007-11-12 15:28         ` Alan Cox

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