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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Cc: Patrick Ale <patrick.ale@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: libsata doesn't like bus without master
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:05:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45D1E1B3.3050109@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45CF54C7.7050400@shaw.ca>

Robert Hancock wrote:
>>
> Having a single drive on the channel configured as slave is not really a 
> legal configuration.

Sure it is.  Not ideal, but "legal" in every respect,
and suprisingly common "in the wild" since the early 1990s.

> (I believe the ATA standards say that it's 
> something that a host controller/driver/OS is allowed to support, but it 
> is not required to.)

Exactly.  Perfectly legal, in other words.  If it's not working with libata,
then we need to fix libata.

Cheers

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-13 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.kM2jAt0lhoofVm0+pIia0W2vzoo@ifi.uio.no>
2007-02-11 17:39 ` libsata doesn't like bus without master Robert Hancock
2007-02-11 17:52   ` Patrick Ale
2007-02-13 16:05   ` Mark Lord [this message]
2007-02-21 20:41 Vincent Legoll
2007-02-21 20:47 ` Vincent Legoll
2007-02-21 21:01   ` Patrick Ale
2007-02-21 21:04     ` Patrick Ale
2007-02-21 22:07     ` Vincent Legoll
2007-02-22  8:12     ` Paul Rolland
2007-02-22  8:38       ` Patrick Ale
     [not found] <fa.OcrmlkSFqen95BGHXWJdR6KGswQ@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.mIV6AQH7D5yiY39XNxbu0M2/1Kc@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]   ` <fa.3Ti1gtH2JY4DWsqr3J1loC7lcc0@ifi.uio.no>
2007-02-11 18:34     ` Robert Hancock
2007-02-11 18:41       ` Patrick Ale
2007-02-11 19:58       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-02-11 20:09         ` Patrick Ale
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-02-11 10:27 Patrick Ale
2007-02-13 20:17 ` Tejun Heo

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