The 80c wire bit is bit 13, not 14. Bit 14 is always 1 if word93 is implemented. This increases the chance of incorrect wire detection especially because host side cable detection is often unreliable and we sometimes soley depend on drive side cable detection. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> --- Please consider for -stable. This bug has been copied from ide and it's just amazing how long this has gone unnoticed. Will post separate patch for ide. include/linux/ata.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: work/include/linux/ata.h =================================================================== --- work.orig/include/linux/ata.h +++ work/include/linux/ata.h @@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ static inline int ata_drive_40wire(const { if (ata_id_major_version(dev_id) >= 5 && ata_id_is_sata(dev_id)) return 0; /* SATA */ - if (dev_id[93] & 0x4000) + if (dev_id[93] & (1 << 13)) return 0; /* 80 wire */ return 1; } - To unsubscribe from this list: 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