The reset callback to wdc was added for this, but it didn't help some systems with the problem so the pciide bits never went in.
If someone has a system that is known to need the workaround this can certaintly be looked into again though. On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 08:32:12PM -0500, Brad wrote: > The following diff is ported from NetBSD (the workaround originated from > OpenSolaris) to workaround the issue of data corruption with the ALI M5229 > IDE chipset when using UltraDMA. Same workaround is also used by > FreeBSD/Linux. > This chipset is found in some sparc64 systems such as the Blade 100 and > Netra X1. > > I don't have any such systems but I went digging for this being curious > why the nasty hack was added to the kernel configs to disable UltraDMA > to workaround this bug and thus penalizing other IDE/SATA controllers > that could be in the same system. If you have one of the mentioned > systems please test this.
