> Alright, then. I was just worried about the asymmetry. Oh, this > _reminds me of another problem regarding enable bits. There's a system > (wyse thin client) with pata_amd controller where the enable bit isn't > set by the BIOS and there's no reliable way to identify the system (no > DMI). Do you know how important is the enabled bits test for these > controllers? If we ignore the tests we get more problems with 30 second timeouts on other hardware that has incorrect termination or a port which is simply not wired on the mainboard. I bet we can identify the Wyse somehow and I'd rather do that even if it means looking for magic strings in the BIOS ROM image. 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
