Re: [PATCH] 2.5.18 IDE 73

Vojtech Pavlik
2002-05-29T17:05:34Z

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 06:05:38PM +0200, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 06:55:38PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>Also for black/whitelists. And we're going to need those, though maybe
> >>>the current data in them is not worth much.
> >>
> >>I'm hopeful they still are. The early drives with DMA problems won't
> >>have changed over time, and I've been updating the others when I get
> >>data from vendors. Promise for example recently sent me a couple to add
> >
> >
> > The early drives haven't changed, but the drivers for the controllers
> > which they were tested on changed (or will change soon). Namely the
> > lists of PIO mode limits were wrong very often. This is mainly because
> > some of the (now almost unused) drivers program the timings incorrectly
> > into the controller registers.
> >
> > I can't say much about the more recent entries, except for that it'd be
> > nice to add a date when the entry was last tested and with what result
> > to each of them over time.
>
> And plese note as well that we don't need the whole id struct, but just
> the name of the drive as well. Which is much less of a hassle anyway.

Correct. And the manufacturer and the revision.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs