On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:26:22PM -0600, Richard Smith wrote: > Cool. Good sluthing. Funny how it worked on lots of other drives > without the init command.
It is an obsolete command (disappeared in ATA-6) but old drives may need it. > >Eric had already added the delay option (#ifdef) to (the ancestor of) > >the driver, though it is hardcoded 31 sec (following ATA spec). > > Isn't that delay the max delay that a master can wait for a slave to > become ready? Maybe, but I think I've seen this number a lot of other places in the spec. ATA spec is huge, and sometimes I have to refer to old versions (I mainly use ATA-1, ATA-2 and ATA-6), it's hard to look through them. -- Takeshi _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
