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
next prev parent 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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