Re: [PATCH] pata_artop: fix UDMA5 for AEC6280[R] and UDMA6 forAEC6880[R]

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Aug 13 2007 - 11:28:20 EST


> > It would be nice to know why - is the cable detet coming out right on
> > this ?
>
> The box has a short 40-wire cable, so pata_artop drops to udma/33
> while aec62xx does udma/100 without intervention. I added an override

Curious as both use the same cable detect logic.

> to artop6260_cable_detect() to make it return PATA40_SHORT on this
> platform, and with that it does udma/100 as expected.

Patch would be good. Looks like there are a couple of cases anyway where
artop needs platform specific uglies


>
> Read performance fluctuates quite a bit, but seems to be 1-3 MB/s
> slower than aec62xx on average. I compared lspci -vvxxx and the
> only differences are a latency setting and some ROM thingy:

Latency shouldn't matter but you can tweak the driver to verify easily
enough
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