From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:08:07 -0500 > On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 20:52 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >> On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:42:27 -0500 >> James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > currently libata-sff is completely ignoring the enabled/disabled status >> > of the interfaces. >> >> Yes - it makes some machines work rather better because the BIOSes >> sometimes mess up the registers. It wad a *deliberate* decision not to >> port it over and as a result stuff works that failed before. Windows >> drivers clearly ignore the bits in many cases. > > Well your deliberate decision is crashing my box on boot. That makes > this a regression from the IDE cmd64x driver. I hear indirectly there's > a similar problem on sparc. Yep, similar problems exist on sparc64, bus errors. -- 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
