I should have known that you (instructor of the current and previous
maintainer) would have the answer off the top ;-)
Therefore by your description it mys be set always but I guess it is a
DGD; however, I do want to know that it is now.
Oh, and now that Big Drive Technology has been annouced I
Okay my bad it is ATA-1 but even that does not explain the bit.
only that section 7.2.6 top of page 14 (index numbers) defines it to be
set to 1 with out a reason.
This this is a pre-ATA thing back in IDE.
If you really want to know the answer I can go dig it up, but later.
Cheers,
Andre Hed
Andre Hedrick wrote:
> That is a legacy bit from ATA-2 but it is one of those things you cannot
> get rid of :-(
in ANSI X3.279-1996, "AT Attachment Interface with Extensions (ATA-2)",
Approved September 11, 1996 , control register bit 3-7 are reserved.
However ANSI X3.2
Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> That is a legacy bit from ATA-2 but it is one of those things you can not
> get rid of :-( even thou things are obsoleted, they are not retired.
> This means that you have to go back into the past to see how it was used,
> silly! I hope you agree to that point.
No,
in A
That is a legacy bit from ATA-2 but it is one of those things you can not
get rid of :-( even thou things are obsoleted, they are not retired.
This means that you have to go back into the past to see how it was used,
silly! I hope you agree to that point.
This is the drive->ctrl register pointe
Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> It fixes a BUG in CFA, but what will it do to the other stuff?
> Parse it exclusive to CFA and there is not an issue.
...
> Not all ./arch have a control register doing this randomly without know the
> rest of the driver will kill more than it fixes.
>
Thanks for pointi
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