Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757790AbYHCNXn (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2008 09:23:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757471AbYHCNX3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2008 09:23:29 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:51108 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757434AbYHCNX1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2008 09:23:27 -0400 Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 14:05:36 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Tejun Heo Cc: Elias Oltmanns , Jeff Garzik , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , James Bottomley , Pavel Machek , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] libata: Implement disk shock protection support Message-ID: <20080803140536.062c2ef1@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <489523DC.2090903@gmail.com> References: <87prp1kvyy.fsf@denkblock.local> <20080726062142.29070.10413.stgit@denkblock.local> <4892B8FE.1070400@gmail.com> <20080801233459.11e9b254@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <489523DC.2090903@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 727 Lines: 17 > Was that something intentional or was it a happy accident? There can be > bus ownership problem on PATA and on SATA this is much more state logic IDLE IMMEDIATE is part of the "historic" specification rather than modern ATA standards. Older drives support it happily newer ones tended to get quite cross. > on both sides of the cable and I think things like that would be more > difficult to work accidentally. We'd have to query the drive vendors to see what they expected. -- 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/