Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:59:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:59:28 -0500 Received: from [195.63.194.11] ([195.63.194.11]:10763 "EHLO mail.stock-world.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:59:15 -0500 Message-ID: <3C8E33A1.7010903@evision-ventures.com> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:58:09 +0100 From: Martin Dalecki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020205 X-Accept-Language: en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vojtech Pavlik CC: LKML Subject: Re: [patch] My AMD IDE driver, v2.7 In-Reply-To:

<20020311234553.A3490@ucw.cz> <3C8DDFC8.5080501@evision-ventures.com> <20020312165937.A4987@ucw.cz> <3C8E28A1.1070902@evision-ventures.com> <20020312172134.A5026@ucw.cz> <3C8E2C2C.2080202@evision-ventures.com> <20020312173301.C5026@ucw.cz> <3C8E3025.4070409@evision-ventures.com> <20020312175044.A5228@ucw.cz> 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 Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 05:43:17PM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote: > >>Vojtech Pavlik wrote: >> >>>On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 05:26:20PM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Vojtech Pavlik wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Well, as much as I'd like to use safe pre-computed register values for >>>>>the chips, that ain't possible - even when we assumed the system bus >>>>>(PCI, VLB, whatever) was always 33 MHz, still the drives have various >>>>>ideas about what DMA and PIO modes should look like, see the tDMA and >>>>>tPIO entries in hdparm -t. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>Yes yes yes of course some of the drivers are confused. And I don't >>>>argue that precomputation is adequate right now. It just wasn't for >>>>the CMD640 those times... I only wanted to reffer to history and >>>>why my timings where different then the computed. >>>> >>>> >>>We may want to compare your original timings to what ide-timing.[ch] >>>will compute ... >>> >>Unfortunately there is no chance. I have abondony this board quite >>happy a long time ago... It was an 486 and I don't keep old >>shread around. Sorry I just don't have it at hand anylonger. >> > > You may happen to have the numbers, though - that should be enough. > > Btw, I have a CMD640B based PCI card lying around here, but never > managed to get it generate any interrupts, though the rest seems to be > working. I remember that I have found them in some readme attached to the original dos drivers from CMD. Maybe it's still availabe on the net but really I don't have it anylongeranywhere archieved. And BTW.> The CMD640B was the variant which wasn't physically broken, as the CMD640 which had improper bus termination of the secondary channel. - 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/