Re: [PATCH] ide: Fix ata_id_has_dword_io to return DWORD I/O supportproperly

[Sergei Shtylyov]

Hello, I just wrote:

> > I remain unconvinced we should be looking at it anywhere except specific
> > pure ISA cycle pass through hardware and thus it belongs as a helper for
> >   
>
>   I'm still not getting how drive can support or not support "DWORD 
> I/O" -- you certainly can't have 32-bit I/O cycle on ISA (only on 
> EISA) and you certainly cannot translate 32-bit cycle to the ATA bus. 
> I remember I had some hypotheses before but they turned out to be 
> inconsistent.

  If only two back-to-back I/O cycles weren't providing enough recovery 
time...

MBR, Sergei


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