Re: Testing patch for ALi PATA - fixes hopefully for the problemswith ATAPI DMA

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Mar 28 2007 - 17:38:27 EST


On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:23:08 -0400
"Ioan Ionita" <opslynx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 3/27/07, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > This implements two things at driver level which are implemented
> > implicitly by the old IDE layer
> >
> > - Only doing sector sized ATAPI I/O via DMA
> > - Alway writing the size values
>
>
> Is there a similar approach for SIS PATA ATAPI?

I'm not aware of any similar limit in the SiS hardware but you can
certainly modify the patch and apply it in the same way to the SiS driver
and see what happens
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