From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964990AbWEORLD (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 13:11:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964993AbWEORLD (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 13:11:03 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:61858 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964990AbWEORLB (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 13:11:01 -0400 Subject: Re: how to set this in the future From: Alan Cox To: Stephen.Clark@seclark.us Cc: linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <4468B3E5.5090209@seclark.us> References: <4466437C.1070306@seclark.us> <1147702848.26686.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4468B3E5.5090209@seclark.us> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 18:23:42 +0100 Message-Id: <1147713822.26686.83.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-4.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Llu, 2006-05-15 at 13:01 -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: > I have a hp pavilion laptop n5430 with an ali chipset. I have a hitachi > drive that will do udma100 - the docs on my laptop say it will do udma4 > but linux by default is setting it to > udma2. Sounds like the laptop vendor has used short 40 wire cable instead of 80 wire internally to the laptop. This is valid but requires special knowledge in the driver of those devices who do it. > 00:0f.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c3) (prog-if 8a Can you give me an lspci -vvxxx of that device (or from the box), and also the output of "dmidecode". That way I can automate the detection in the new libata pata_ali driver, and if you cc Bartlomiej he can add it to the old driver (B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl) Alan