Eddie Hung wrote:
> However, I think we can conclude that ICH6M (which on the X41, has a
> SATA-PATA bridge to connect a PATA drive) does not seem to support
> MWDMA

It isn't clear whether the fault is at the driver or the CF device.

> (especially as it is not completely supported under Windows
> either - it is *incredibly* slow but does not give the same timeout
> problems as with libata),

Please verify which mode is in use in Windows.  Just watching cpu usage
in the task manager while transferring data should give you a pretty
good idea.

> nor does libata it drop down gracefully to
> PIO4 when it detects these timeouts.

Yeah, this is a bug to fix.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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