HEADS UP: Check your devices' UDMA settings - *TEMPORARY* *WORKAROUND*

[Nils Kassube]

Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 06/04/2011 17:38, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > No, SATA drives are not affected because they have a different
> > hardware interface.

> I am glad to see that SATA devices are not not affected.
> 
> However, "SATA uses the same basic ATA and ATAPI command-set as
> legacy ATA devices." which makes me wonder if what you just stated
> is absolutely correct.

Yes, at least I think so. The UDMA cable detection (which is the topic 
here) is only a feature of the PATA interface. As an analogy, the PATA / 
SATA difference is like the difference between the dial-up modem and the 
ADSL modem. The command set you are talking about is used at a different 
layer - in this analogy it would be something like TCP/IP which can be 
used over both dial-up and ADSL.


Nils