Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750756AbXBMQFV (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:05:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750788AbXBMQFV (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:05:21 -0500 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:1809 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750756AbXBMQFU (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:05:20 -0500 Message-ID: <45D1E1B3.3050109@rtr.ca> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:05:07 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Hancock Cc: Patrick Ale , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo Subject: Re: libsata doesn't like bus without master References: <45CF54C7.7050400@shaw.ca> In-Reply-To: <45CF54C7.7050400@shaw.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 743 Lines: 21 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. Cheers - 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/