Re: [PATCH] 2.5.15 IDE 61

Daniela Engert
2002-05-14T12:52:43Z

On Tue, 14 May 2002 11:30:58 +0200, Martin Dalecki wrote:

>There is no problem to go in paralell on different channels for
>requests. The serialization has only to be done
>for the drive setup.

This assumption is *not* valid in all cases!

For example, get dtips10.pdf from the CMD website and learn how the
CMD646 may fail on concurrent requests on both channels.

There are other chips which need runtime serialization.

Ciao,
Dani

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