ata mode at startup

[Julian Stacey]

> It would also be impossible to maintain,

I'm suprised.  I'd been thinking of an analogy to USB quirk table,
(I sent send-pr's for entries for that), but you know ATA code, I don't.

> thats why the current knobs  
> are there, if DMA fails you boot in "safe" mode ie PIO and then you  
> can experiment to your hearts content what your flakey HW can take.

Good point. ( I've wished before though, we'd thought of a more intuitive
name for "Safe", though not sure what it might be.)

Julian
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