Eddie Hung wrote: > However, I think we can conclude that ICH6M (which on the X41, has a > SATA-PATA bridge to connect a PATA drive) does not seem to support > MWDMA It isn't clear whether the fault is at the driver or the CF device. > (especially as it is not completely supported under Windows > either - it is *incredibly* slow but does not give the same timeout > problems as with libata), Please verify which mode is in use in Windows. Just watching cpu usage in the task manager while transferring data should give you a pretty good idea. > nor does libata it drop down gracefully to > PIO4 when it detects these timeouts. Yeah, this is a bug to fix. Thanks. -- 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