As it's been a few weeks since this initial posting: What's the status of either getting the magic chipset handshake mode published to take the chipset out of this degraded mode, or implementing a bridge driver like VMD? It seems devices supporting this "slow down the devices and make life hell for the OS" mode are getting more common, so we'll have to do something about it. -- 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