WD Caviar problem

[Richard Smith]

SONE Takeshi wrote:

> 
> I got it work just now, both for cold boot and warm boot cases.
> The missing command was INITIALIZE PARAMETERS.
> I wasted many hours to realize that I had done it wrong. :)
> 

Cool.  Good sluthing.  Funny how it worked on lots of other drives 
without the init command.

> 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?

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Richard A. Smith
rsmith at bitworks.com