> why we have to check for ATA revision prior to that -- unless we're > trying to guard against pre ATA-3 values other than 0 or 0xFFFF. Which we are. At the point we first use this function we are poking blindly at a device we have not done any other analysis of. 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