Commit de141c53 authored by Andrew Morton's avatar Andrew Morton Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Update ide.txt documentation to current ide.c

From: Maciej Soltysiak <solt@dns.toxicfilms.tv>

this patches updates Documentation/ide.txt to reflect more options that
really are supported by the IDE driver (drivers/ide.c)
parent ed56ea68
Information regarding the Enhanced IDE drive in Linux 2.5
Information regarding the Enhanced IDE drive in Linux 2.6
==============================================================================
......@@ -242,9 +242,24 @@ Summary of ide driver parameters for kernel command line
and quite likely to cause trouble with
older/odd IDE drives.
"hdx=biostimings" : driver will NOT attempt to tune interface speed
(DMA/PIO) but always honour BIOS timings.
"hdx=slow" : insert a huge pause after each access to the data
port. Should be used only as a last resort.
"hdx=swapdata" : when the drive is a disk, byte swap all data
"hdx=bswap" : same as above..........
"hdx=flash" : allows for more than one ata_flash disk to be
registered. In most cases, only one device
will be present.
"hdx=scsi" : the return of the ide-scsi flag, this is useful for
allowing ide-floppy, ide-tape, and ide-cdrom|writers
to use ide-scsi emulation on a device specific option.
"hdxlun=xx" : set the drive last logical unit
"idebus=xx" : inform IDE driver of VESA/PCI bus speed in MHz,
......@@ -278,26 +293,40 @@ Summary of ide driver parameters for kernel command line
This is the default for most chipsets,
except the cmd640.
"idex=biostimings" : driver will NOT attempt to tune interface speed
(DMA/PIO) but always honour BIOS timings.
"idex=serialize" : do not overlap operations on idex. Please note
that you will have to specify this option for
both the respecitve primary and secondary channel
to take effect.
"idex=four" : four drives on idex and ide(x^1) share same ports
"idex=reset" : reset interface after probe
"idex=dma" : automatically configure/use DMA if possible.
The following are valid ONLY on ide0, which usually corresponds to the first
ATA interface found on the particular host, and the defaults for the base,ctl
ports must not be altered.
"idex=ata66" : informs the interface that it has an 80c cable
for chipsets that are ATA-66 capable, but the
ability to bit test for detection is currently
unknown.
"ide=reverse" : formerly called to pci sub-system, but now local.
The following are valid ONLY on ide0 (except dc4030), which usually corresponds
to the first ATA interface found on the particular host, and the defaults for
the base,ctl ports must not be altered.
"ide0=dtc2278" : probe/support DTC2278 interface
"ide0=ht6560b" : probe/support HT6560B interface
"ide0=cmd640_vlb" : *REQUIRED* for VLB cards with the CMD640 chip
(not for PCI -- automatically detected)
"ide0=qd65xx" : probe/support qd65xx interface
"ide0=ali14xx" : probe/support ali14xx chipsets (ALI M1439/M1445)
"ide0=ali14xx" : probe/support ali14xx chipsets (ALI M1439/M1443/M1445)
"ide0=umc8672" : probe/support umc8672 chipsets
"idex=dc4030" : probe/support Promise DC4030VL interface
"ide=doubler" : probe/support IDE doublers on Amiga
There may be more options than shown -- use the source, Luke!
......@@ -375,3 +404,6 @@ mlord@pobox.com
Wed Apr 17 22:52:44 CEST 2002 edited by Marcin Dalecki, the current
maintainer.
Wed Aug 20 22:31:29 CEST 2003 updated ide boot uptions to current ide.c
comments at 2.6.0-test4 time. Maciej Soltysiak <solt@dns.toxicfilms.tv>
......@@ -1855,7 +1855,7 @@ static int __initdata is_chipset_set[MAX_HWIFS];
* registered. In most cases, only one device
* will be present.
* "hdx=scsi" : the return of the ide-scsi flag, this is useful for
* allowwing ide-floppy, ide-tape, and ide-cdrom|writers
* allowing ide-floppy, ide-tape, and ide-cdrom|writers
* to use ide-scsi emulation on a device specific option.
* "idebus=xx" : inform IDE driver of VESA/PCI bus speed in MHz,
* where "xx" is between 20 and 66 inclusive,
......
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