> Earlier in this thread somebody suggested to restrict the pciide > downgrade to Ultra-DMA mode 2 to just the broken Acer Labs controller. > That is actually really easy to do. The big question is whether we > want to do this just on sparc64 (and add an ugly #ifdef __sparc64__ in > otherwise MI code), or if we should do this to all rev 0xc3 Acer Labs > M5229 controllers. There is at least one of those on a Pentium III > machine that has a disk attached that does Ultra-DMA mode 4 now in > dmesglog. > > Opinions?
Even though this might be a bad idea, for now I'd prefer such a change to be #ifdef __sparc64__. Miod
