zhao, forrest wrote:
Hello, all In ACPI spec 3.0, section 9.9 defines 4 objects for PATA/SATA: _GTF is for both PATA and SATA, which is used to return ATA task file needed to re-init the drive; _SDD is SATA-only object, which is used to inform the platform of the type of device attached to a port; _GTM and _STM are PATA-only objects, which are used to get/set PATA timing information(i.e. PIO and DMA speed).
It seems to be quite common for ICH*M notebooks to use the SATA ports to attach PATA drives with PATA->SATA bridge chips in the middle. In this case, one would expect the _GTM and _STM objects to be necessary, even though Linux thinks it's a SATA situation. Do the patches take this into account? Cheers - : 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
