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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/ide/Kconfig | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/ide/ide-probe.c | 6 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ide/Kconfig b/drivers/ide/Kconfig index 052879a6f85..b50b5dac95b 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/ide/Kconfig @@ -131,29 +131,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_IDEDISK If unsure, say Y. -config IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE - bool "Use multiple sector mode for Programmed Input/Output by default" - help - This setting is irrelevant for most IDE disks, with direct memory - access, to which multiple sector mode does not apply. Multiple sector - mode is a feature of most modern IDE hard drives, permitting the - transfer of multiple sectors per Programmed Input/Output interrupt, - rather than the usual one sector per interrupt. When this feature is - enabled, it can reduce operating system overhead for disk Programmed - Input/Output. On some systems, it also can increase the data - throughput of Programmed Input/Output. Some drives, however, seemed - to run slower with multiple sector mode enabled. Some drives claimed - to support multiple sector mode, but lost data at some settings. - Under rare circumstances, such failures could result in massive - filesystem corruption. - - If you get the following error, try to say Y here: - - hda: set_multmode: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } - hda: set_multmode: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } - - If in doubt, say N. - config BLK_DEV_IDECS tristate "PCMCIA IDE support" depends on PCMCIA diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c index 8cfce50c71e..9926e12783b 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c @@ -89,16 +89,14 @@ static void ide_disk_init_mult_count(ide_drive_t *drive) u8 max_multsect = id[ATA_ID_MAX_MULTSECT] & 0xff; if (max_multsect) { -#ifdef CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE if ((max_multsect / 2) > 1) id[ATA_ID_MULTSECT] = max_multsect | 0x100; else id[ATA_ID_MULTSECT] &= ~0x1ff; drive->mult_req = id[ATA_ID_MULTSECT] & 0xff; -#endif - if ((id[ATA_ID_MULTSECT] & 0x100) && - (id[ATA_ID_MULTSECT] & 0xff)) + + if (drive->mult_req) drive->special.b.set_multmode = 1; } } |