Re: [2.6.10-rc2+] ide1=ata66 -- OBSOLETE OPTION, WILL BE REMOVEDSOON!

[Alan Cox]

On Llu, 2004-12-13 at 21:47, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > I do need a way to force an 80c cable on this AMD756 (ATA66 max) board,
> > since the BIOS doesn't seem to be setting the cable bits correctly.
> 
> Ugh, I checked AMD datasheets and AMD756 doesn't support host
> side cable detection.  Well, we can try doing disk side only for it.
> [ ATi and ITE (in -ac kernels) drivers are also doing this. ]

That is probably a good change but not sufficient for things like
bladeservers where some vendors use short 40c cables which are within
specification but break drive side detection. Removing ata66 forcing
doesn't work because of these although perhaps it could be done using
subvendor ids so it is automatic ?

Right now I plan to keep ata66 overrides in -ac.

Alan

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