Re: WD Caviar problem

[SONE Takeshi]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:26:22PM -0600, Richard Smith wrote:
> Cool.  Good sluthing.  Funny how it worked on lots of other drives 
> without the init command.

It is an obsolete command (disappeared in ATA-6) but old drives
may need it.
> > Eric had already added the delay option (#ifdef) to (the ancestor of)
> > the driver, though it is hardcoded 31 sec (following ATA spec).
>
> Isn't that delay the max delay that a master can wait for a slave to 
> become ready?

Maybe, but I think I've seen this number a lot of other places
in the spec.
ATA spec is huge, and sometimes I have to refer to old versions
(I mainly use ATA-1, ATA-2 and ATA-6), it's hard to look through them.