ATA anomaly Question

[Bill Hacker]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 11:32:50PM +0800, Bill Hacker wrote:

As Matthew pointed out, the 'message' about not finding the cable (on a 
SATA port) is superfluous/gratuitous/irrelevant.


I was more thinking about the wrong side issue on normal PATA ports :)

Joerg
Well - I do plead guilty to cutting-off the endian-ness pin on the MB
and reversing the cables sometimes when one drive is atop the MB
and the other at a distance.  But only 'til I can get back to the office
and fab a custom cable.  ;-)
But w/r the original post - only the Promise Fastrak S-150 TX2 Plus
even has a PATA connector, (ports 1 & 2 are SATA,  3 is PATA)
- and it was not in use.
One of the HPT's OTOH, was pure PATA. So we have two separate issues:

 - driver reporting of non-80-pin cable when there IS one (approved by 
MB BIOS)

 - driver reporting of non-80-pin cable when it is not germane (pure SATA).

My only concern was whether the driver forced a 'downshift' to PIO3, 
which is
*says* it does do, or utilized the higher-speed UDMA protocol and signalling
with ECC.

If that is not ascertainable from the source code, I will put a dual-trace
'scope on it and confirm from the waveforms.
Bill