ICH Intel PATA short cable override...

From: Daniel J Blueman
Date: Tue Sep 04 2007 - 08:37:36 EST


We see that in ata_piix.c, there is a whitelist for (laptop) Intel ICH
controllers with short cables, tied to specific vendor subsystem IDs.
Since my mini-ITX Ibase MI910F has the subsystem IDs specified as
Intel [1], this is unusable.

I can't find another existing mechanism to add short cable
information, to allow UDMA/66 for my on-board CF socket.

Do you suggest I cook a patch to pass a kernel argument eg 'ich=short'
or 'pata=short', or can you think of a better mechanism?

Thanks,
Daniel

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# lspci -vs 00:1f.2
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E)
SATA IDE Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA
IDE Controller

# lspci -vns 00:1f.2
00:1f.2 0101: 8086:2828 (rev 03) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Subsystem: 8086:2828
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Daniel J Blueman
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