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-rw-r--r--drivers/ide/Kconfig23
-rw-r--r--drivers/ide/ide-probe.c6
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ide/Kconfig b/drivers/ide/Kconfig
index 052879a6f85..b50b5dac95b 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/ide/Kconfig
@@ -131,29 +131,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_IDEDISK
If unsure, say Y.
-config IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE
- bool "Use multiple sector mode for Programmed Input/Output by default"
- help
- This setting is irrelevant for most IDE disks, with direct memory
- access, to which multiple sector mode does not apply. Multiple sector
- mode is a feature of most modern IDE hard drives, permitting the
- transfer of multiple sectors per Programmed Input/Output interrupt,
- rather than the usual one sector per interrupt. When this feature is
- enabled, it can reduce operating system overhead for disk Programmed
- Input/Output. On some systems, it also can increase the data
- throughput of Programmed Input/Output. Some drives, however, seemed
- to run slower with multiple sector mode enabled. Some drives claimed
- to support multiple sector mode, but lost data at some settings.
- Under rare circumstances, such failures could result in massive
- filesystem corruption.
-
- If you get the following error, try to say Y here:
-
- hda: set_multmode: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
- hda: set_multmode: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
-
- If in doubt, say N.
-
config BLK_DEV_IDECS
tristate "PCMCIA IDE support"
depends on PCMCIA
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
index 8cfce50c71e..9926e12783b 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
@@ -89,16 +89,14 @@ static void ide_disk_init_mult_count(ide_drive_t *drive)
u8 max_multsect = id[ATA_ID_MAX_MULTSECT] & 0xff;
if (max_multsect) {
-#ifdef CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE
if ((max_multsect / 2) > 1)
id[ATA_ID_MULTSECT] = max_multsect | 0x100;
else
id[ATA_ID_MULTSECT] &= ~0x1ff;
drive->mult_req = id[ATA_ID_MULTSECT] & 0xff;
-#endif
- if ((id[ATA_ID_MULTSECT] & 0x100) &&
- (id[ATA_ID_MULTSECT] & 0xff))
+
+ if (drive->mult_req)
drive->special.b.set_multmode = 1;
}
}