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SubjectRe: 2.1.111: IDE DMA disabled?
   Date: 	Sun, 26 Jul 1998 13:30:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>

Essentially, everything I found looked more like timing changes,
not like some fundamental bug. Which is why I'm suspicious of
timing and hardware issues.

This is precisely the sort of behavior I saw with my crappy WDC disk
on my workstation. Some kernels would give me corruption once every 3
to 4 months with DMA enabled, others would give me corruption once a
day.

I really think you'll find western digital to be a serious common
denominator if you asked these %1 people for the brand of disk they
are using. A large percentage of all DELL machines out use these
disks by default.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com

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