Hello, On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 05:47:49PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > > Tejun, this CF card adapter plugs directly into an IDE socket > > (Channel 0, in my case) on a desktop computer motherboard. You > > can see a picture of the adapter in the following URL01: Oh, okay, so it's a plugin device. For some reason, I thought the machine in question was a laptop and the CF slot was built-in. > The reason the speed is being limited to 33 is that the cable > detection code is detecting that an 80-wire cable doesn't appear to be > connected. In order for an 80-wire cable to be detected, pin 34 on the > cable is supposed to be grounded at the motherboard end. In the case > of this adapter, since it plugs directly into the motherboard, it > would have to be grounding pin 34 to get an 80-wire detection, but > presumably it's not. Yeap, it's the device failing to wire cable detection properly. Unfortunately, it's impossible to detect and work around automatically. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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
