> Was that something intentional or was it a happy accident? There can be > bus ownership problem on PATA and on SATA this is much more state logic IDLE IMMEDIATE is part of the "historic" specification rather than modern ATA standards. Older drives support it happily newer ones tended to get quite cross. > on both sides of the cable and I think things like that would be more > difficult to work accidentally. We'd have to query the drive vendors to see what they expected. -- 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