Re: [PATCH] ide: motherboard-info based blacklist for ide-dma

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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

True.  However it should be possible to handle it correctly by adding
the
DMA quirk to the respective host drivers (seems to be via82cxxx.c in
case of
IEI PCISA-C3/EDEN).

 Yeah, this seems a viable approach...

Kirill, could you please look into adding such quirk to via82cxxx
instead?

[ It seems the best place to add it would be via_init_one() as we
could just

 No, not really -- the issue is not at all as simple as this patch
tried to present it. Looking at its "Quick Startup Reference"
(http://f.ipc2u.ru/files/add/doc/496/M_PCISA-C800EV_ENG.pdf), the EPIC
board has *two* normal IDE connectors in addition to the CF slot
(connected to the secondary port -- and it seems possible that a hard
drive can be connected to the same port as CF), so the right place
seems to rather be in [mu]dma_filter() methods -- and the decision
should be strictly based on the drive type indicating CF, i.e. by
calling ata_id_is_cfa().

I have tried my old Trancend 64Mb, RamStar 521Mb and NCP 64Mb cards. My old cards returned right id[ATA_ID_CONFIG] = 0x848A.

But I have to use Kingston CF Card 1Gb 2008.
ata_id_is_cfa() returns 0 for it and
id[ATA_ID_MAJOR_VER]	= 0
id[ATA_ID_CONFIG]		= 0x044A

I have only CF+ specification revision 2.0, but I've found in wiki:
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompactFlash#CF.2B_specification_revisions)
"... While the current revision 4.1 from 2004 works only in ATA mode, ..."

So I have reached an impasse. How to identify modern CF cards?

Sorry that I missed it before but if indeed normal IDE devices/connectors can
be used with IDE2 then I see no sane/reliable way to detect CF devices using
buggy on-board slot... unless this slot is hardwired to be master (or slave)?

Selectable via switch. However, it's not very probable that user will plug in CF adapter into the secondary channel (and it will have the option of using on on the primary anyway).

Thanks,
Bart

MBR, Sergei
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