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SubjectRe: [Alsa-user] Pb with simultaneous SATA and ALSA I/O
FromAlan Cox <>
DateThu, 05 Oct 2006 22:52:13 +0100
Ar Iau, 2006-10-05 am 16:45 -0400, ysgrifennodd Lee Revell:
> I've heard that some motherboards do evil stuff like implementing legacy drive
> access modes using SMM which would cause dropouts without xruns
> reported.

They don't. SATA causes audio dropouts on some systems because its fast
enough to starve the audio device of regular enough access to the PCI
bus. If that is a problem the audio device should be tuning PCI
latencies

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