Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268274AbUJDQcY (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2004 12:32:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268278AbUJDQcJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2004 12:32:09 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:58300 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268095AbUJDQaz (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2004 12:30:55 -0400 Message-ID: <41617AB2.4030702@pobox.com> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:30:42 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Lord CC: William Knop , Jon Lewis , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: libata badness References: <4161750A.6060200@rtr.ca> In-Reply-To: <4161750A.6060200@rtr.ca> 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 Content-Length: 659 Lines: 20 Mark Lord wrote: > I have used Maxtor "SATA" drives that require > the O/S to do a "SET FEATURES :: UDMA_MODE" command > on them before they will operate reliably. > This despite the SATA spec stating clearly that > such a command should/will have no effect. > > I suppose libata does this already, but just in case not.. > Something simple to check up on. libata always issues SET FEATURES - XFER MODE. Jeff - 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/