Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:55:24 +0100 | From | Rene Herman <> | Subject | Re: bug in kernel 2.6.21-rc1-git1: conventional floppy drive cannot be mounted without hanging up the whole system |
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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.
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