Hello, I wrote:
The IDE code assumed for years that the bit 1 of the identify data word 53 also covers the validity of the SW/MW DMA information in words 62 and 63, but it has always covered only words 64 thru 70, with words 62 and 63 being defined in the original ATA spec, not in ATA-2...
This fix however should only concern *very* old hard disks and rather old CF cards...
Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Looks like the patch is still incomplete, as I've only fixed the generic files, while two drivers also needed to be fixed... :-/
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