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

Martin Dalecki
2002-03-12T16:59:39Z

Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 05:43:17PM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote:
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>>Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
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>>>On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 05:26:20PM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote:
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>>>>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.
>>>>
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>>>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.
>>
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> You may happen to have the numbers, though - that should be enough.
>
> Btw, I have a CMD640B based PCI card lying around here, but never
> managed to get it generate any interrupts, though the rest seems to be
> working.

I remember that I have found them in some readme attached to the
original dos drivers from CMD. Maybe it's still availabe on the net but
really I don't have it anylongeranywhere archieved. And BTW.> The CMD640B was
the variant which wasn't physically broken, as the CMD640 which had
improper bus termination of the secondary channel.