On Sul, 2005-02-13 at 18:51, Jeff Garzik wrote: > libata-dev now has two drivers that support PATA, pata_pdc2027x and > ata_piix, and the core is getting close (DMA blacklist in, C/H/S support > close).
Do you have DMA change down sorted - CRC error, drop speed and/or switch to PIO then later flip back. Thats one real horror to get right and one thats badly screwy in the current IDE code (-ac IDE can hang the box for ages, base will sometimes crash) > * With ATA passthru (in libata-dev currently), libata supports SMART and > the HDIO_CMD/HDIO_TASK generalized ioctls. Should I care about > supporting other ioctls? I'd rather the libata driver just had the sane ioctls > * pci_enable_device() issues? Nothing really special there, pci_disable_device can be funny thats all. > * power management differences? AFAIK only the "I have a cache but no flush command" issue I'm all for burying the old IDE layer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
