> I have patches to update pata_amd to use _STM/_GTM for cable detection > (a lot are taken from pata_acpi) but ACPI cable detection is just as > broken as PCI config one. I'm unclear we can safely mix _STM/_GTM and direct access to the drive in a general form. The ACPI documentation seems to be carefully very silent on the subject. Whatever works in this area is good. 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