On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 02:41:43PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> >
> > > Why the UDMA66 speed isn't autoselected is beyond me, though.
> >
> > Because we do not know enough to allow it to happen is the short answer,
> > on a predictable bases.
>
> Even if ide0=ata66 is explicitely specified on the commandline?
Yes because the validity bits in word93 are not satisfied and then it gets
rejected.
So you can disable the check with a compile option.
So lets think for a minute.
We can not detect the 80c ribbon, thus we override that safety check.
We fail a valid bit check, thus we disable that safety check.
I can not think of any other stablity policy rules define, but I can find
a few more........
The point is you can destablize the driver, but that is what Linux is all
about........
You know I am getting tired of the game......
Good Day,
-A
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