Arnould wrote:

>> BTW wether slave blocks are used or not is up to the device driver. Thats
>> why rewriting the IDE device driver would help this problem. Slaveing could
>> still be active for slower devices.

>Now that is the most interesting remark I read for years about slave 
>blocks!! I thought that the mechanism was device driver independant.

The mechanism itself is indeed independent, but each device driver can
decide wether to use it or not.

Peter


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