> Since we are already using UDMA mode set by BIOS to determine if 80c cable > is present so why not also use it to determine if the 40c cable is present? > > I mean just ignoring AMD_CABLE_DETECT register for NVIDIA devices. > > 2-lines change and we wouldn't have to deal with ACPI at ell. And as I explained earlier you get false values. The existing hack is dodgy as well and breaks on suspend/resume then loading the driver for one. It's probably the best that can be done without ACPI but the ACPI _GTM/_STM methods are pretty clean so its not hard to use them. You need them for full suspend/resume support anyway. Alan - 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