[Ksummit-2008-discuss] Kernel Summit request for Discussion of future of ATA (libata) and IDE
Sergei Shtylyov
sshtylyov at ru.mvista.com
Mon Aug 4 15:52:47 PDT 2008
Hello, I wrote:
>>>>> supported. I couldn't track down where that bit was actually
>>>>> defined in the first place, all the way back to ATA-1 it seems to
>>>>> be indicated as reserved. Actually, I'm not sure why the drive
>>>>> cares in the first place, it would seem like a pure host
>>>>> controller issue..
>>>>>
>>>> It goes back before IDE into the depths of the original compaq
>>>> spec. When
>>>> you have a device wired basically directly to the ISA bus (original
>>>> IDE)
>>>>
>>> ISA has only 8/16-bit data bus, so it could not have mattered
>>> there...
>>
>> Depends what a 32bit I/O looks like on the 16bit bus - timing wise.
>>
>
> Two 16-bit reads at addresses 0x1x0 and 0x1x2 with the programmed
> recovery time, IIRC... It's just occured to me that in case of the
> 16-bit bus it should be how the drive treated the accesses at address
> 0x1x2 with IOCS16 asserted that could have mattered. If it honored
> them, 32-bit I/O could have worked even on a dumb ISA "controller", if
> not -- no way (unless you really had *something* between the ISA and
> the IDE cable).
Oh, -IOCS16 is driven by device, not host. I give up then. :-)
MBR, Sergei
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