> Yeah, that's consistent to what I've seen on my machine which is a > variant of A8N. No matter what value I through at _STM, _GTM just > echoed the result thus always leading to 80c configuration. > > > I guess this means that what we have to do is trust that the BIOS set up > > a reasonable mode and base the cable detect on that (either by reading > > back the boot-up controller registers, or by calling GTM). I imagine > > this is what the Windows default IDE driver is doing (just using the > > boot-up mode and feeding it back using GTM/STM on suspend/resume cycles). > > Alan, what do you think? Interesting, sounds like it is still useful rather than just reading the registers as the GTM/STM seem to survive resume cycles which drive config may not (eg if the driver is loaded after a s2ram/resume. If it just echoes back we should also be able to detect this by using knowingly invalid values. 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
