Matt,
I was looking at the ATA code to get more familiar with it, and I decided to
check out the logs.
Revisions 1.8 and 1.9 of ata-disk.c both seem to be vaguely related to my
problem. Maybe. The first change adds MPIPE and does not back off into PIO
mode if resources are lacking. I'm not sure about this one. But the second
one changes the ATA reset timing. Could this have anything to do with my
issue?
jm
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