Re: PATA failure with piix, works with libata

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 08:07:05PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Honestly I'm quite surprised that there is a difference between legacy 
> and native mode (more joy :)).  ICH seems to want an ack to the bmdma 
> status register even on non-DMA commands, since it directly reflects the 
> IDE INTRQ line.  Perhaps pounding on the Status register will clear that 
> condition, thus enabling legacy software to continue successfully 
> without worry about this ICH-specific detail.  </speculation>

Yeah, that seems to work. Thanks! I'll see if I can clean this up...
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