On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, James Lick wrote: > Sanjay Nadkarni wrote: > >> Opps just caught the IDE issue. IDE has DMA transfer limitations. >> Transferring over 128K on some machines would cause problems. I thought >> we had a patch to fix this ? What version of the OS+patch are you running >> ? >> > > My read of the ATA-Host Adaptor standard is that there is a 64k limit to DMA > transfers on standard ATA controllers. (T13 1510D Section 6.9.2) Are there > ATA controllers that can transfer more than this at a time?
Is there a reason Solaris doesn't ignore and warn when values larger than the maximum are specified? > > -- > James Lick -- ??? -- jlick at jameslick.com -- http://jameslick.com/ > _______________________________________________ > lvm-discuss mailing list > lvm-discuss at opensolaris.org >
