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Subject: Re: IDE cable detection on Apple PowerBook
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: TOMARI Hisanobu <posco.grubb@gmail.com>
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On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 14:06 +0900, TOMARI Hisanobu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using an OCZ PATA SSD on Apple PowerBook5,4 computer.
> The IDE drive fails to recognize 80-conductor cable that
> connects the drive to motherboard to fall back to UDMA33.
> 
> This patch fixes this behavior by assuming that the cable is
> short-40pin when the model string matches "PowerBook5" and 
> the motherboard detects 80c cable.
> 
> This patch is against drivers/ide/pmac.c in linux 2.6.28.8.

The patch is too much of an ad-hoc hack... _maybe_ an option is to make
the core fallback to 40 "short" when 80 pin detection fails on
powerbooks instead ?

Ben.

> (before applying the patch) hdparm -i /dev/hda
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing buffered disk reads:   90 MB in  3.03 seconds =  29.73 MB/sec
> (dmesg 2.6.26)
> ide0: Found Apple UniNorth ATA-6 controller, bus ID 3, irq 39
> Probing IDE interface ide0...
> hda: CORE_PATA, ATA DISK drive
> hda: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
> hda: drive side 80-wire cable detection failed, limiting max speed to UDMA33
> hda: UDMA/33 mode selected
> 
> (after applying the patch) hdparm -i /dev/hda
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  240 MB in  3.02 seconds =  79.42 MB/sec
> (dmesg 2.6.28.8)
> ide-pmac: Found Apple UniNorth ATA-6 controller (PCI), bus ID 3, irq 39
> Probing IDE interface ide0...
> hda: CORE_PATA, ATA DISK drive
> hda: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
> hda: UDMA/100 mode selected
> ide0 at 0xf102a000-0xf102a070,0xf102a160 on irq 39
> 
> 
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