Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Jul 1998 18:22:49 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.111: IDE DMA disabled? |
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On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Gadi Oxman wrote: > > The configuration on which the filesystem corruption was observed is a > Tyan Tomcat III board + WD 2.2GB drive; that motherboard is using the > 430HX chipset, which pre-dates Ultra-DMA and doesn't support CRC check.
Which implies that at _least_ we need to disable DMA automatically if it's one of those chipsets.
Personally, I never understood why DMA was enabled by default anyway. As far as I can tell the only sane thing is to have it always disabled by default, and enable it with hdparm.
Linus
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