On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:50:02 +0100 Jan Evert van Grootheest <j.e.van.grootheest@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Prefetch needs to be set for some ide devices to work when connected to > a ht6560b interface. This was not always done properly, causing a system > with a HD and CD on the primary interface to not work properly. Or, in > effect, hang hard. > > This patch forces prefetch on devices before checking whether it > is necessary to change the settings in the interface Interesting, that is backwards to the docs and not something I've seen. If you are correct then pata_legacy also wants tweaking . 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