Mark Lord wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: > .. >> Modify EH such that it assumes no device is attached if both flavors >> of IDENTIFY are aborted by the device. There really isn't much point >> in retrying when the device actively aborts the commands. > .. > > And thus dies support for the few very early IDE drives that lacked > IDENTIFY. > > R.I.P. :) > > (not that they would have worked with libata in the first place) How did they work anyway? By specifying geometry manually to the driver? I think we can do that. We just need another cute HORKAGE. ATA_HORKAGE_NO_IDENITFY and some massaging around EH to handle it. Heh... That's gonna be a silly but fun project. :-) -- tejun -- 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
