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From(Alan Cox)
SubjectRe: 2.2.0-pre4 errors
DateWed, 6 Jan 1999 15:03:08 +0000 (GMT)
> I have compiled 2.2.0-pre4 for my smp system and run across some minor
> problems. First of all the DMA-Support seems to be broken. In 2.2.0-pre1
> it worked just fine, but in 2.2.0-pre4 it says, that dma is broken for my
> first IDE drive. As hardware hasn't changed it must be a problem with the
> IDE driver. Second problem is a minor one. Just a wrong detection on the

No its intentional. The kernel has a list of drives that _sometimes_ cause
problems so that it defaults to a safe value. You can use hdparm (man hdparm)
to set it how you like if you know you dont have a problem


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