Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 12 Dec 2000 22:47:35 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: [patch] I-Opener fix (again) |
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Basically if the setting of
* "hdx=flash" : allows for more than one ata_flash disk to be * registered. In most cases, only one device * will be present.
fails then I will look into this but, the breaking of laptops that have CFA devices that do not come on channels in a pair canb not happen. If you have a vender unique setting that will follow always the way I-Opener's are setup then that is better.
Cheers,
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 alex@foogod.com wrote:
> It's been a few months (and a couple of kernel releases) since I mentioned this > before and it doesn't look like it's made it in, and I haven't seen any more > comments on it in the list archives, so I'm bringing it up again in case it > just got forgotten about somewhere along the line.. > > As I remember, Andre Hedrick had asked for clarification on my original post, > and I sent a followup message in response, but now I can't seem to find it > anywhere in the archives, so I don't know whether it never made it out of my > mailer or.. > > In any case, attached is a patch (against 2.4.0pre11) which fixes the bug which > causes disk detection issues on I-Opener (and possibly other unusual) hardware. > > The problem is that the code assumes that a flash-disk will always be the > primary disk on an interface, but on the I-Opener this is not always the case. > If a traditional disk is primary, and a flashdisk is secondary, the detection > code (wrongly) disables the primary disk that it had already previously > detected. > > I would like to see this make it into the official source as it's a very small > change that fixes some obviously wrong behavior.. > > -alex >
Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development
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