Re: ICH Intel PATA short cable override...

[Mark Lord]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Mark Lord wrote:
> > Ditto for selecting transfer modes.
>
>
> Waiting on one thing AFAICS:
>
>     ability to drain/idle all ports +
>     issue a command on one port +
>     resume normal parallel port operation
>
> SET FEATURES - XFER MODE is special in that it requires all sorts of 
> additional controller handling and careful cross-port synchronization.

Absolutely.

Also note that I'm *not* advocating HDIO_SET_PIO_MODE (and kin) here,
but rather perhaps a sysfs option per-drive.  It is needed, especially for
custom/embedded systems, and I suppose we will get there eventually.  :)

Cheers
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