Re: pata_ali can't detect partitions

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> commit 1b2c357c301b76118973763e886d9f70a7f50f7e
> pata_ali: force initialise a few bits
> 
> I tried to backout the commit but that didn't succeed. So I looked carefully
> at the diff and I came out with the attached patch which seems to fix the
> problem (at least now the kernel detects the partitions correctly).

Thanks for doing this. Can you send me an lspci -vvxxx and a dmesg of the
machine in question.

> Since I saw that the above commit is fixing some real bugs (sunblade related)
> I don't know whether the attached patch is right or is backing out the
> intended fix. All I know is that it works for me and for this reason I'm
> reporting it.

Some of the registers involved are deep magic (even with the official
documentation its unclear what should occur in all cases). I will have
another dig - probably it depends on the chip rev what the right setting
is.

Alan
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