Mark Lord wrote:

Jeff Garzik wrote:

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3) In Promise's GPL'd driver for their SATA (w/ PATA) cards, they 
unconditionally execute the INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS command.  I 
wonder if we should do the same.

That command was *necessary* for certain drives at one time,
which refused all other commands until they received the IDP one.

Except IDENTIFY DEVICE, presumably?

Thanks,

	Jeff