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From: Andre Hedrick <andre@aslab.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: IDE drive won't come back after power down
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That is the prefered location; however, setting/writing up hold over code
that will be deleted in 2.5 is silly.  The basics are the non-data
taskfile registers operations.

Thoughts of accepting patches early for taskfile now?

Andre Hedrick
CTO ASL, Inc.
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On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > The problem is that the requirements of ACPI is to have a
>
> My PC110 does the same as Ross' machine, and like this box it has no ACPI.
> This isnt an ACPI problem on the boxes I've seen do it.
>
> > You can attempt the noisy reset additions to some versions of hdparm, and
> > then issuing the the checkpower commands until staus is reported as ready,
>
> Any reason you cant do that in kernel space, if an app can do it then
> pm thread code can do it ...
>
> Alan
>