Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 29 Jun 2003 02:30:29 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: Testing IDE-TCQ and Taskfile - doesn't work nicely:) |
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You missed a point.
Defaulting to off means stablity for the masses. Enduser enable is for testing to get it correct. Regardless, it was my $0.02 for the thread.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-06-28 19:17:53 -0700, Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> > wrote in message <Pine.LNX.4.10.10306281917040.1116-100000@master.linux-ide.org>: > > > > The best rule is to default it off and let the end user enable regardless. > > Thus the default will NEVER encounter the issues seen now. > > While I was the one who initially had the "trouble", I was thankful for > having a "Switch It On by Default" option. I don't exactly know what the > patch did to the IDE subsystem (personally I'm not really into IDE...), > but I'd unhide a problem (either my dumb drive/controller setup or a bug > in Linux' IDE code) and so - one more bug down (at least from my point > of view). That's a good thing, IMHO. > > This *is* why I'm using 2.5.x - there's actually a chance to easily find > bugs with everybody's hardware:) > > MfG, JBG > > -- > Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 > "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg > fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im Irak! > ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(IRAQ_WAR_2 | DRM | TCPA)); >
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