Re: [BUG?] ata disk running maximum at DMA33 with 2.6.20 and newpata driver, NV CK804 ide controller.

[Alan]

> As an aside to this sort of problem, shouldn't we print some kind of 
> loud message in dmesg when we force a high-UDMA-capable device down to 
> UDMA33 due to a 40-wire cable detection? In the case where it truly is a 
> 40-wire cable the user may want to know that and replace the cable, if 
> it isn't it gives more of a hint of why the drive isn't running at full 
> speed..

Send patches. We also probably want to change speed straight from
UDMAlots to UDMA33 if the cable is CBL_UNK so that we can rapidly recover
in the cases where the controller says "I'm crap I don't really know" (eg
ATI and Nvidia without ACPI)
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