Some IDE -> Compact Flash media adapters are not capable of supporting UDMA, which can cause very slow boot times when the CF media itself reports as capable of UDMA transfer speeds. Create Kconfig option to turn off the UDMA capability bit when media is identified as Compact Flash. Signed-off-by: James Ausmus <james.ausmus@xxxxxxxxx> --- diff -uprN -X linux-2.6.16.5/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.16.5.orig/drivers/ide/Kconfig linux-2.6.16.5/drivers/ide/Kconfig --- linux-2.6.16.5.orig/drivers/ide/Kconfig 2006-04-17 13:37:47.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.16.5/drivers/ide/Kconfig 2006-04-17 13:43:37.000000000 -0700 @@ -447,6 +447,18 @@ config IDEDMA_ONLYDISK Generally say N here. +config IDE_COMPACT_FLASH_NO_UDMA + bool "Disable UDMA for Compact Flash Devices" + help + This turns off the UDMA capability flag bit for any IDE device + that identifies as Compact Flash - This is a workaround for + cheap Compact Flash -> IDE adapters that don't support UDMA + transfer speeds even if the CF card does. + + Enable this if you are using a Compact Flash card as an IDE + device and you see re-occuring 0x41 DMA Timeout errors from + your IDE driver. + config BLK_DEV_AEC62XX tristate "AEC62XX chipset support" help diff -uprN -X linux-2.6.16.5/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.16.5.orig/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c linux-2.6.16.5/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c --- linux-2.6.16.5.orig/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c 2006-04-17 13:37:48.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.16.5/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c 2006-04-17 13:44:45.000000000 -0700 @@ -248,6 +248,11 @@ static inline void do_identify (ide_driv if ((id->config != 0x848a) && (id->config & (1<<7))) drive->removable = 1; +#if defined(CONFIG_IDE_COMPACT_FLASH_NO_UDMA) + if (id->config == 0x848a) + id->capability &= ~1; +#endif + drive->media = ide_disk; printk("%s DISK drive\n", (id->config == 0x848a) ? "CFA" : "ATA" ); QUIRK_LIST(drive); - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html