From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: More ATA corner cases Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:52:08 -0400 Message-ID: <44E3BDB8.2030502@rtr.ca> References: <1155731962.24077.346.camel@localhost.localdomain> <44E3A13D.20102@rtr.ca> <1155775118.15195.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:14212 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932166AbWHQAwJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:52:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1155775118.15195.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Mer, 2006-08-16 am 18:50 -0400, ysgrifennodd Mark Lord: >> Alan Cox wrote: >>> Any objection to me adding a new cable type for "40 wire ATA66 capable" >>> to indicate the laptop vendor has been sneaky and we should do full UDMA >>> ranges regardless of drive or other controller reporting. >> Good. I'll need that feature for a little mini-ITX box here as well. >> It uses a *really short* 40W cable for UDMA4 operation. > > Can you send me the dmidecode output and the lspci -vxxx for it so I can > find something to autodetect this. No autodetection possible here -- custom configuration. All I need is a modparam or /sys attrib that I can set. Thanks.