> unfortunately I don't think that's possible. There is no way to > generate a read cycle to PCI memory space on this hardware without all > of the byte enables being set. Normally this isn't a problem, a full Ok so this isn't about not being able to do the workaround, you have hardware which is just busted ? Is this devel hardware or stuff in mass circulation ? > The patch is a relatively clean work around for limitations in the > hardware I'm using, but I know it probably looks like just more > cruft from an outside perspective so I won't be championing it :) I would make the switch a runtime value personally - some network drivers do this for similar reasons. 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