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Re: Problem with IDE disk

From: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>
To: knud dot woehler at microplex dot de
Cc: ecos-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 11:10:02 +0100
Subject: Re: Problem with IDE disk
References: <4200C91C.4020706@microplex.de>

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 01:35:40PM +0100, knud.woehler@microplex.de wrote:
> Hello
> the attached patch corrects two problems with the ide_disk driver.
> 
> 1. The check for hard disks does not work. The line
> "if (((ide_idData->general_conf>>8)&0x1f)!=2) " returns true with my 
> hard disk. (ide_idData->general_conf = 0x0040)

I've not commited this part. I would like to understand this
better. Maybe somebody can spend some time looking at the standard and
work out what is correct.
 
> 2. I have to wait for "not busy" before sending a command to the device.

This i have committed.

   Thanks
        Andrew

Attachment: ide_disk.patch
Description: Text document

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