On Thursday 10 January 2008, Tejun Heo wrote: > Marc Howard Zuckman wrote: > > With apologies if this was supposed to be an attachment: > > Inline is fine. > > > IT8212: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:03:0c.0 > > IT8212: chipset revision 17 > > it821x: controller in smart mode. > > IT8212: 100% native mode on irq 21 > > ide2: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio > > ide3: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio > > Probing IDE interface ide2... > > hde: Integrated Technology Express Inc, ATA DISK drive > > hde: IT8212 RAID 1 volume. > > hde: selected mode 0x0 > > ide2 at 0xa810-0xa817,0xac02 on irq 21 > > Probing IDE interface ide3... > > Probing IDE interface ide3... > > Probing IDE interface ide4... > > Probing IDE interface ide5... > > hda: max request size: 128KiB > > hda: Host Protected Area detected. > > current capacity is 195369455 sectors (100029 MB) > > native capacity is 195371568 sectors (100030 MB) > > hda: Host Protected Area disabled. > > hda: 195371568 sectors (100030 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, > > UDMA(100) > > hda: cache flushes not supported > > hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > > > Oh... I thought you were using libata drivers because you mentioned > pata_it821x on the subject. The IDE driver supports 'hdparm -d 1' fine. > I wonder why that's not working. Also, the driver is configuring your > disk to PIO0. In "smart mode" controller takes care of mode programming. > Cc'ing Alan and Bartlomiej. Guys, is this the smart mode problem? Do > ide and libata have this fixed in 2.6.24-rc? [ added Alan and myself ;) to cc: ] Possibly. Marc, please also send output of 'hdparm --Istdout /dev/hde' command. Thanks, Bart - 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