cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-all.c ata-all.h ata-chipset.c

[Bernd Walter]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 01:06:21PM +0100, Philip Paeps wrote:
> On 2008-08-15 13:47:04 (+0200), Bernd Walter <ticso at cicely7.cicely.de> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:55:11AM +0000, Philip Paeps wrote:
> > > This can be used to disable the 80pin cable check on systems which forget
> > > to set the bit -- such as certain laptops and Soekris boards.
> > 
> > Are those bits per device?
> 
> That is what it looks like, yes.  The cable is detected by checking whether a
> certain pin is grounded.  From how I read the standard, the pin should be
> grounded in the connector, so I can imagine a very strange cable which has 80
> pins up to the first device and 40 to the second.

I thought the cable type is read by the controller.
But if it is read by the device then it sounds possible.
Hadn't thought about a broken cable yet.
Well - in fact I never cared much about this problem at all.

> > ad4: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ATA66 cable
> > ad4: 117246MB <Maxtor 6Y120L0 YAR41BW0> at ata2-master UDMA33
> > ad5: 156334MB <Maxtor 6Y160P0 YAR41BW0> at ata2-slave UDMA133
> > Which is strange, since both drives are on the same cable...
> 
> I agree that this is very strange.  I haven't read the ATA standard in any
> kind of detail though...
> 
> Does this commit fix it though?

A update to a more recent current failed for other reasons.
But I can test your change alone.

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