Re: possibly a dumb question about sb600/700

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:44:30 +0900
Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> wrote:

> Alan Cox wrote:
> >> 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.
> 
> Thanks.  I don't have direct access to the machine so I guess they'll
> have to live with temporary workaround for the time being.  :-(

cp biosrom file
strings file
grep product name

not approximate offset