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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>,
	Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
	jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ICH Intel PATA short cable override...
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:20:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46DF63F8.8070805@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070906014209.142382c8@the-village.bc.nu>

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 13:37:22 +0100
> "Daniel J Blueman" <daniel.blueman@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> We see that in ata_piix.c, there is a whitelist for (laptop) Intel ICH
>> controllers with short cables, tied to specific vendor subsystem IDs.
>> Since my mini-ITX Ibase MI910F has the subsystem IDs specified as
>> Intel [1], this is unusable.
>>
>> I can't find another existing mechanism to add short cable
>> information, to allow UDMA/66 for my on-board CF socket.
> 
> DMI is the other approach (if your box has sane responses to the
> dmidecode command we can do this). 

No, something more flexible is needed here.

For example, I have a Mini-ITX server here, which I personally have
equipped with a 3" 40W IDE cable that connects to a notebook drive.

The system currently uses UDMA just fine with the IDE drivers,
but I have not been able to convert it to use the (stock) libata drivers
because of this silly lack of end-user control.

We really need an override for this -- embedded folks would also apprecaate one.
Ditto for selecting transfer modes.

Cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-06  2:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-04 12:37 ICH Intel PATA short cable override Daniel J Blueman
2007-09-05  6:12 ` Andrey Panin
2007-09-06  0:42 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-06  2:20   ` Mark Lord [this message]
2007-09-06  7:59     ` Daniel J Blueman
2007-09-07 23:19     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-10 12:15       ` Mark Lord
2007-09-16  7:58         ` Jeff Garzik

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