Re: [PATCH #upstream-fixes] libata: implement and use HORKAGE_NOSETXFER

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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
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