Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 May 2005 14:34:26 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: DMA not works in Linux 2.6.12, but in Windows works fine. |
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Sergey Vlasov wrote: > To IDE developers: Is something planned to work around this problem? > AFAIK, there are some machines where BIOS does not provide an option to > turn off the combined mode.
This limitation exists because two drivers (drivers/ide and libata) want to use different parts of the same hardware.
Once libata can do ATAPI 100%, when we can just let libata handle both PATA and SATA, which will enable DMA again.
Jeff
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