Re: Andre IDE patches + Promise, UDMA detection

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

Andre Hedrick <[e-mail]> writes:

> Because sometimes the decay rate of the capacitance check after execute
> drive diagnostics command from POST is faster than boot.
> 
> Also if this problem happens only after a cold boot, but a warm boot is
> valid, you can set the CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB=y
Unfortunately problem always happens - cold boot, warm boot - no difference.
So setting CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB=y won't help in this case?

My IDE config looks that:
CONFIG_IDE=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=m
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=m
# CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE is not set
# CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE is not set
CONFIG_IDE_TASKFILE_IO=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK_VENDOR is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK_FUJITSU is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK_IBM is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK_MAXTOR is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK_QUANTUM is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK_SEAGATE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK_WD is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECS=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=m
# CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_FORCED is not set
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_WIP is not set
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_NEW_DRIVE_LISTINGS is not set
# CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS is not set
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO is not set
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODES=y
CONFIG_CD_NO_IDESCSI=y

> > Unfortunately it thinks that all my harddrives (connected to promise
> > via 80wire cable) are UDMA33! Now _sometimes_ after boot it detects
> > these (properly) as UDMA100 and sometimes (seems more frequently)
> > as UDMA33.

> Andre Hedrick
> Linux Disk Certification Project                Linux ATA Development

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