Alan Cox wrote: >> 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. Yeap, definitely. Can you please retest pata_acpi with ata_acpi_gtm() fixed? I have an UDMA2 ODD (HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H10N) and UDMA4 HDD (WDC WD153AA) attached to 40c cable and ACPI mode discovery doesn't work at all. The only thing I can get working here is storing the BIOS setting. :-( -- tejun - 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