> > Yes - I'd like it to just work, but I'd like it to just work without > > breaking anything else, without adding device specific special cases and > > ideally in a way that makes other stuff that is similarly odd just work > > too. > > Then, how do you suggest proceeding on it? Without a bus tracer, we > can't easily tell what Windows is doing and on native SATA skipping > SETXFER isn't likely to cause any serious problem. It's basically > noop. I would suggest we issue the SETXFER always. If it times out then we will revalidate the identify data so we can use that to see what mode we are actually in. 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