Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:01:05 +0900 > Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> PIONEER DVD-RW DVRTD08 times out SETXFER if no media is present. The >> device is SATA and simply skipping SETXFER works around the problem. >> Implement ATA_HORKAGE_NOSETXFER and apply it to the device. > > NAK > > Sorry you can't just blindly do this because some of the controllers snoop > the SETXFER command to set their timings and whether they expect DMA. Also > we've no idea if this is a bug in a specific firmware revision, a quirky > pata/sata bridge or a timing problem of some sort. I think it'll generally be okay for SATA unless it's bridged over to PATA controller. Any other ideas? Thanks. -- 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