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On Fri 13 Jan 2006 17:40:33 NZDT +1300, Robert Hancock wrote: > I'm thinking the IDE code is too aggressive in assuming that the failure > is because of a DMA problem and disabling it.. Most likely all that's > happening is the drive is taking a long time to complete the current > command. Yes! Each time when inserting a faulty CD/DVD, or whenever the drive gives read errors for whatever reason, the kernel decides to turn DMA off and try again, fail (again) and leave DMA off. And this after having successfully used DMA before - so it's not that the device is DMA-incapable. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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