Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 20:31:08 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: garman@phs.k12.ar.us Cc: terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CMD640b ide controller bug workarounds? Message-ID: <199701270331.UAA04555@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970126171625.garman@jason.garman.net> from "Jason Garman" at Jan 26, 97 05:16:25 pm
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> And as for L*nux, looking through AltaVista's search results for the query > you gave me, it seems that L*nux _does_ automatically and > non-destructively detect and work around the CMD 640b bugs. (no > hda=serialize needed after all, apparently) > > Detecting a VLB board using this chip would be harder (is it even > possible)? Well, for PCI, yes. For VLB, there's no slot identification data (which is why, like ISA, it sucks). If the Linux code is working around the hardware problem, it probably has code to detect it, which you could examine to determine their algorithm. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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