Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: 2.2.0-pre4 errors | Date | Fri, 8 Jan 1999 14:14:10 +0000 (GMT) |
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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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