Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 08:08:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 08:08:40 -0400 Received: from eventhorizon.antefacto.net ([193.120.245.3]:63421 "EHLO eventhorizon.antefacto.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 08:08:27 -0400 Message-ID: <3AC8798B.5090302@AnteFacto.com> Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 14:07:23 +0100 From: Padraig Brady User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-ac4 i686; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010326 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andre Hedrick CC: Steffen Grunewald , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rsmith@bitworks.com Subject: Re: Cool Road Runner In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org OK can we just have a technical discussion? Andre Hedrick wrote: > On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > [hostilities snipped] > Also, several messages earlier I pointed out that I had not documented the > feature because it was only attempted once, and only with 2 CFA's in a > bazar ata-bridge. 1. All compact flash have an inbuilt ATA controller. I.E. they can be used exactly like a harddisk, directly off the IDE controller of a motherboard. I.E. no need for PCMCIA or any of that. I understood from your responses that you didn't realise this? 2. Compact Flash in this application (I.E. solid state hard disk) is getting very popular as prices are tumbling. 3. Having a config parameter (uneeded kludge in my opinion), like hdx=flash even if hdx is not a compact flash is confusing. Can we call it hdx=probe which fits nicely with the noprobe option. > I then explained why the detection was failing and pointed where to verify. No you didn't. You mentioned a 30 second timeout, but not why it was caused. Have you seen this yourself or can you point us at who reported this to you? > After 3-5 attempts and I can not get the point across because the other > party keeps going off in different directions to do "what about this", Emm, I think *you* were going off describing your application with a "bazar ata-bridge", not the simple use of a compact flash as a hard disk. > I finally pointed out facts that distrub people, and gave up on trying to > show/present/give the answer and offered to then enforce their beliefs of > reality. > > So I state a few facts very pointed to get their attention again and that > is additude?? Actually I thought the final email was a little more concise/informative, thanks. [more hostility snipped] Padraig. - 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/