Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:05:07 -0500 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: libsata doesn't like bus without master |
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Robert Hancock wrote: >> > Having a single drive on the channel configured as slave is not really a > legal configuration.
Sure it is. Not ideal, but "legal" in every respect, and suprisingly common "in the wild" since the early 1990s.
> (I believe the ATA standards say that it's > something that a host controller/driver/OS is allowed to support, but it > is not required to.)
Exactly. Perfectly legal, in other words. If it's not working with libata, then we need to fix libata.
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