From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265640AbUBFTEL (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:04:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265644AbUBFTEL (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:04:11 -0500 Received: from host-64-65-253-246.alb.choiceone.net ([64.65.253.246]:60855 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265640AbUBFTEG (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:04:06 -0500 Message-ID: <4023E5AB.7070502@tmr.com> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 14:06:19 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gene.heskett@verizon.net CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: cdwriter /dev/hdc question References: <200402050825.58623.gene.heskett@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <200402050825.58623.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > Running 2.6.2 atm, but for quite a while in the 2.6.x series I've had > a line in /var/log/messages immediately after the dmesg dump > indicating that dma was being disabled for /dev/hdc. I think this is bogus, in that it is silently enabled again. Ask hdparm! I thought that message was either going to go away or be paired with a similar "I didn't mean it" message if the drive is reenabled, but I can't quickly find the discussion. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979