Polling IDE and CF issue.

[Andrew Ip]

Richard,

> I've just discovered a compact flash that isn't identified properly by 
> the polling IDE code.
> Its an 8Meg CF and Linux identifies it as  a Hitachi CV 7.1.1, ATA DISK 
> drive with CHS=246/2/32
> The polling IDE code sees that there is a drive there issues the info 
> command and dosen't generate an error but the model info is blank and 
> the CHS info shows all zeros.  Same code seems to work fine with the 
> SanDisk and Lexar CFs I have.
> So it looks like the IDE_CMD_GET_INFO command is returning back all zeros.
> If that's the case then where is Linux getting its info from?
I have noticed that some CF's require more delay than others.  For instance,
I had to increase WAIT_COUNT from 0xFFFF to 0xFFFFFF in Adam's ide patch
in order to get certain card to work.  Hope this help.

-Andrew

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