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> Well, but even  if it's an internal list, it must have been changed, since
> in 2.2.0-pre1 this message didn't appear. At this point it appears to make

It was. It was a long pending patch

> sense to check if this drive is really problematic. I would like to know
> some reports from the other people on this list, that use such a drive
> (WDAC 33100H) if they got problems with DMA on this drive. So this could
> be examined and eventually the drive considered to be normal and removed
> from this internal list.

It won't be getting removed. I've changed the text and added some notes
so its a lot clearer why it turned DMA off. A small but statistically
significant number of people saw disk corruption with that drive under
Linux with DMA enabled. Most people never saw a problem at all - enough did.

Disk corruption isnt an acceptable boot time default for Linux.

Alan

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