Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> The ICH8 south-bridge I have is the mobile variant and does come
> equipped with native parallel IDE - see page 447:
> http://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/31305603.pdf . I do
> see 35MB/s with DMA enabled from my CF on the 1 in 15 times the
> libata-kernel does work.
> 
> I can dump off and decode the configuration registers for the timing
> and bus master registers in the working and non-working libata cases,
> and the legacy ATA working case and see what's different.

Does the attached patch change anything?

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tejun