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SubjectRe: bug in kernel 2.6.21-rc1-git1: conventional floppy drive cannot be mounted without hanging up the whole system
On 02/26/2007 07:13 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> The floppy is still pretty much the only user of native motherboard
> (aka i8237) DMA'ing for most people. Some old ISA sound-cards may do
> it, of course.

Other than these two, ECP parallel ports are the other remaining users.
Now, even though on a machine that still has a parallel port it might
usually indeed be set to ECP in its BIOS; having anything attached to
the port also use it as such seems quite seldom.

Rene.
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