Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)V3

2001-06-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
I should have known that you (instructor of the current and previous maintainer) would have the answer off the top ;-) Therefore by your description it mys be set always but I guess it is a DGD; however, I do want to know that it is now. Oh, and now that Big Drive Technology has been annouced I

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)V3

2001-06-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
Okay my bad it is ATA-1 but even that does not explain the bit. only that section 7.2.6 top of page 14 (index numbers) defines it to be set to 1 with out a reason. This this is a pre-ATA thing back in IDE. If you really want to know the answer I can go dig it up, but later. Cheers, Andre

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)V3

2001-06-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
Okay my bad it is ATA-1 but even that does not explain the bit. only that section 7.2.6 top of page 14 (index numbers) defines it to be set to 1 with out a reason. This this is a pre-ATA thing back in IDE. If you really want to know the answer I can go dig it up, but later. Cheers, Andre

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)V3

2001-06-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
I should have known that you (instructor of the current and previous maintainer) would have the answer off the top ;-) Therefore by your description it mys be set always but I guess it is a DGD; however, I do want to know that it is now. Oh, and now that Big Drive Technology has been annouced I

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)V3

2001-06-29 Thread Andries . Brouwer
Andre Hedrick wrote: > That is a legacy bit from ATA-2 but it is one of those things you cannot > get rid of :-( in ANSI X3.279-1996, "AT Attachment Interface with Extensions (ATA-2)", Approved September 11, 1996 , control register bit 3-7 are reserved. However ANSI

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)V3

2001-06-29 Thread Gunther Mayer
Andre Hedrick wrote: > > That is a legacy bit from ATA-2 but it is one of those things you can not > get rid of :-( even thou things are obsoleted, they are not retired. > This means that you have to go back into the past to see how it was used, > silly! I hope you agree to that point. No, in

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)V3

2001-06-29 Thread Gunther Mayer
Andre Hedrick wrote: That is a legacy bit from ATA-2 but it is one of those things you can not get rid of :-( even thou things are obsoleted, they are not retired. This means that you have to go back into the past to see how it was used, silly! I hope you agree to that point. No, in ANSI

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)V3

2001-06-29 Thread Andries . Brouwer
Andre Hedrick wrote: That is a legacy bit from ATA-2 but it is one of those things you cannot get rid of :-( in ANSI X3.279-1996, AT Attachment Interface with Extensions (ATA-2), Approved September 11, 1996 , control register bit 3-7 are reserved. However ANSI

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)V3

2001-06-28 Thread Andre Hedrick
That is a legacy bit from ATA-2 but it is one of those things you can not get rid of :-( even thou things are obsoleted, they are not retired. This means that you have to go back into the past to see how it was used, silly! I hope you agree to that point. This is the drive->ctrl register

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards) V3

2001-06-28 Thread Gunther Mayer
Andre Hedrick wrote: > > It fixes a BUG in CFA, but what will it do to the other stuff? > Parse it exclusive to CFA and there is not an issue. ... > Not all ./arch have a control register doing this randomly without know the > rest of the driver will kill more than it fixes. > Thanks for

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards) V3

2001-06-28 Thread Gunther Mayer
Andre Hedrick wrote: It fixes a BUG in CFA, but what will it do to the other stuff? Parse it exclusive to CFA and there is not an issue. ... Not all ./arch have a control register doing this randomly without know the rest of the driver will kill more than it fixes. Thanks for pointing

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)V3

2001-06-28 Thread Andre Hedrick
That is a legacy bit from ATA-2 but it is one of those things you can not get rid of :-( even thou things are obsoleted, they are not retired. This means that you have to go back into the past to see how it was used, silly! I hope you agree to that point. This is the drive-ctrl register