Re: [patch] My AMD IDE driver, v2.7

Martin Dalecki
2002-03-12T16:46:21Z

Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 05:26:20PM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote:
>
>>Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
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>>>Well, as much as I'd like to use safe pre-computed register values for
>>>the chips, that ain't possible - even when we assumed the system bus
>>>(PCI, VLB, whatever) was always 33 MHz, still the drives have various
>>>ideas about what DMA and PIO modes should look like, see the tDMA and
>>>tPIO entries in hdparm -t.
>>>
>>Yes yes yes of course some of the drivers are confused. And I don't
>>argue that precomputation is adequate right now. It just wasn't for
>>the CMD640 those times... I only wanted to reffer to history and
>>why my timings where different then the computed.
>>
>
> We may want to compare your original timings to what ide-timing.[ch]
> will compute ...

Unfortunately there is no chance. I have abondony this board quite
happy a long time ago... It was an 486 and I don't keep old
shread around. Sorry I just don't have it at hand anylonger.