On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 12:44 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > BTW afaik you won't be able be able to control DMA on the dvd drive with > > this setup, so I'll stick to my patched kernel for the moment (= both > > disk&cdrom are assigned to ide). > > That's normal for combined mode. Until libata can do ATAPI (soon!), the > lack of DMA is a necessary evil, since two drivers are trying to claim > two halves of the same hardware.
I already had it working this way, actually, but it has a bad habit of locking up solid every now and then. So I'll wait and in the meantime use my patched kernel (=all drives on IDE).
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