On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 02:23:57PM +0200, Thomas K�llmann wrote:
>
> Please excuse if this was mentioned before (I did not follow this
> thread very closely), but isn't _not_ using
>
> options ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA
>
> enough as a measure of precaution?
>
> This is from LINT:
>
> # ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA: enable DMA on ATAPI device, since many ATAPI
> # devices claim to support DMA but doesn't actually work, this is
> # not enabled as default.
>
Note there is a subtle distinction between ATAPI devices and ATA hard
disks. The devices which that option disables DMA for are devices like
CD-ROMs, IDE zip drives, etc. -- NOT normal IDE hard drives -- they use
DMA with the new driver regardless of that setting.
enjoy
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