Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18pre21 ide-disk.c for OB800

2001-01-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Wrong method. > > > > APMD has to have the ablity to remember the state. > > Spindown is basically a power reset to the drive. > > Wrong answer, apmd if its swapped out doesnt get back in on some drives Okay then are you wanting me to create a struct or

Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18pre21 ide-disk.c for OB800

2001-01-10 Thread Grant Grundler
Andre, Alan, My grand total experience with IDE drivers is now around 4 hours. I have no clue what's right or wrong and am quite clueless what the role of apmd is wrt ide-disk driver. I'm open to testing other fixes for this problem. AFAIK, this could be a BIOS bug since no one else seems to hav

Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18pre21 ide-disk.c for OB800

2001-01-10 Thread Alan Cox
> Okay then are you wanting me to create a struct or bit mask to carry the > the device settings/mode that is set before an APM/ACPI event happens. > > Regardless that the answer is wrong, somebody/thing has to keep a copy of > the device settings, and the case of swapout they get nuked. Thus a

Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18pre21 ide-disk.c for OB800

2001-01-10 Thread Alan Cox
> Wrong method. > > APMD has to have the ablity to remember the state. > Spindown is basically a power reset to the drive. Wrong answer, apmd if its swapped out doesnt get back in on some drives - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message t

Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18pre21 ide-disk.c for OB800

2001-01-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
Wrong method. APMD has to have the ablity to remember the state. Spindown is basically a power reset to the drive. On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Grant Grundler wrote: > hi folks, > I've been playing with hdparms on the OB800 (running debian 2.2 - > that 2.2.18pre21 based) as shown on: > > http:/

[PATCH] 2.2.18pre21 ide-disk.c for OB800

2001-01-10 Thread Grant Grundler
hi folks, I've been playing with hdparms on the OB800 (running debian 2.2 - that 2.2.18pre21 based) as shown on: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mcba/hp800ct.html The appended patch attemps to fix the following errors seen when the IDE drive spins up after a sleep mode: hda: multwri