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From: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH libata-dev-2.6 1/3] Add CHS support
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 09:41:59 -0500
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To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> 3) In Promise's GPL'd driver for their SATA (w/ PATA) cards, they 
> unconditionally execute the INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS command.  I 
> wonder if we should do the same.

That command was *necessary* for certain drives at one time,
which refused all other commands until they received the IDP one.

Cheers
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Mark Lord
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