Devices that misreport the validity bit for word 93 look like SATA. If they are on the blacklist then we must not test for SATA but assume 40 wire in the 40 wire case (The TSSCorp reports 80 wire on SATA it seems!) Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/include/linux/ata.h linux-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/include/linux/ata.h --- linux.vanilla-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/include/linux/ata.h 2008-01-02 16:04:25.000000000 +0000 +++ linux-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/include/linux/ata.h 2008-01-02 16:18:56.000000000 +0000 @@ -639,8 +639,6 @@ static inline int ata_drive_40wire_relaxed(const u16 *dev_id) { - if (ata_id_is_sata(dev_id)) - return 0; /* SATA */ if ((dev_id[93] & 0x2000) == 0x2000) return 0; /* 80 wire */ return 1; - 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