Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.18 IDE 73 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 29 May 2002 19:47:13 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 16:46, Martin Dalecki wrote: > Indeed thanks for the reminder. However as far as I'm concerned > I would rather agree that the data currently present in those > black/whitelists is basically useless. Most of the disks > present there are simple plain just obsoleted by a great margin
Lots of people are still using them. Removing the blacklists "because they are old disks" is not what I'd consider good practice.
> It's most propably not accurate for more modenr ATA host chip cells.
For the DMA blacklists thats not the case. You need to get more direct contacts with the IDE/ATA drive vendors and documentation sets. The WDC DMA blacklist entries for example are from specific WDC issued lists of problem drives.
Alan
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