On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:45:36AM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 05:28:15PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>
> > Capable Of Corrupting Your FS
> >
> > * Use PCI DMA by default in IDE is unsafe (must not do so on via
> > VPx, x < 3) (requires chipset tuning to be enabled according to
> > Andre Hedrick --- we need to turn this on by default -- TYT)
>
> Ok, but if we do this, we should also include the (attached) new VIA
> driver. I've fixed the remaining issue with MWDMA1, so I hope that this
> will work for everybody now.
>
> Andre: is that OK?
>
> A separate issue: 80-pin cable detection on some boards, namely VIA and
> AMD pre-UDMA100 chipsets. They use the capacitor-on-board method with
> drive based reporting. So the eighty_ninty_three() call should tell us
> what cable is in use, right (after checking the ATA spec revision
> compliance for both the master and slave drive)?
>
> Currently both the VIA and AMD drivers need an explicit ideX=ata66 LILO
> command line option. Andre, if you agree that it's possible to use the
> above method for detecting the cable (you know the ATA standard better
> than me), I'd like implement it.
As always, forgot the attachment. Here it goes.
-- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs
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