On Friday 03 June 2005 04:49, maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > The Fedora kernel binary packages have IDE compiled into the kernel,
> > > > presumably to work around this problem.
> > > >
> > > > I guess that this indicates a bug in the kernel.org source.  But
> > > > while we wait for that to be fixed I think that compiling the drivers
> > > > into the kernel would be the right thing to do.
> > >
> > > the sarge kernel is frozen.
> >
> > Frozen at <10% disk IO performance for many machines...
>
> i don't agree.

What do you disagree about?  Do you believe that the Debian kernels will 
support DMA on all IDE devices?  Do you believe that without DMA good 
performance will be delivered?

> but your waving is definetly a bit late in that release game...

I posted to the list as soon as I noticed the problem.

As the Debian kernels are apparently going to remain unusable for me I won't 
be testing them much in future.  So the next time there's a bug of this 
nature you shouldn't be expecting any advance notice from me.

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