On Monday 21 January 2008, Tejun Heo wrote: [...] > > Old IDE says it works for PATA. For SATA I can see it might need more > > care and you might simply not be able to get the info. > > Old IDE often locks up the machine hard after timeouts. I'm all for Could you point me to some bugreports? I would like to know more about hosts/conditions for which it happens. > gathering more info but benefit vs. risk equation just doesn't look good > here. Why take risk for a rare device which forgets to raise IRQ on > media error? If such behavior is wide spread among PATA drives && we > can verify that TF register access after timeout is safe for PATA > controllers, sure, but currently we aren't sure about either. 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
