Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Compact Flash Serial ATA patch | From | Russell McConnachie <> | Date | Tue, 23 May 2006 04:41:03 -0600 |
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Hi Matt,
The patch which stopped the DMA problems was adding the model ID to the dma blacklist in the libata-core.c file. I will create another patch in unified diff format, it seems that compact flash uses different device IDs than regular ATA/ATAPI devices.
On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 10:23 -0700, Matthew Dharm wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 04:16:37AM -0600, Russell McConnachie wrote: > > I was having some trouble with a serial ATA compact flash adapter with > > libata. I wrote a small patch for the kernel to work around the sanity > > check, dma blacklisting and device ID detections in ata_dev_classify(). > > I've had this problem, too. Apparently, my CF/SATA bridge doesn't support > DMA, but libata requires it. > > I don't know if this is the right fix (if nothing else the patch needs to > be sent in unified diff format), but it's certainly something that needs > fixing. > > Matt > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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