Re: WD Caviar problem

[SONE Takeshi]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 05:13:23AM +0900, SONE Takeshi wrote:
> I just found my old WD Caviar drive. It was in an unused PC.
> It's 1.2GB, WDC AC31200F.
> And the problem Steve reported is reproduced here.
> I'll see if I can fix this.

The old IDE driver (in LinuxBIOS) does a lot of commands to initialize
the drive, while the current driver (in FILO at least) just does
IDENTIFY command.

IDE_CMD_GET_INFO
IDE_CMD_DRIVE_DIAG
(soft reset)
IDE_CMD_RECALIBRATE
IDE_CMD_SET_PARAMS
IDE_CMD_SET_MULTIMODE
IDE_CMD_SET_PARAMS

Maybe some of them are needed to start Caviar up.