On Thursday 11 December 2008 18:53:00 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
In message Mike Frysinger you wrote:
Also, in the code you removed we do a runtime check on 8536 to see if SATA is even available. That check is still valid.
why ? if the hardware doesnt support it, then the user shouldnt be attempting to use it. if they do, that's their fault for doing something stupid.
And if they do, the code should fail gracefully, i. e. print some friendly error message like that S-ATA is not available.
in this case, i think that's up to the controller. i.e. the controller doesnt find anything and you get a message that nothing was found.
i dont have a board to test with to know what will happen exactly, nor does the current code make any statement that i can see. Scott ? -mike