Re: [PATCH 3/3] Use correct IDE error recovery

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Mar 07 2007 - 19:01:34 EST


> On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Suleiman Souhlal wrote:
> > IDE error recovery is using WIN_IDLEIMMEDIATE which was only valid for
> > IDE V1 and IDE V2. Modern drives will not be able to recover using
> > this error handling. The correct thing to do is issue a SRST followed
> > by a SET_FEATURES.
>
> This change looks fine, indeed we are better of using SRST + SET_FEATURES
> than IDLE_IMMEDIATE.
>
> > Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx>

And this is well worth doing - IDLEIMMEDIATE blows the mind of some later
drive firmware that doesn't expect to be treated in an IDE v1 manner.


Alan
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