Re: [Linux-ia64] CMD649 driver in 2.5.5x

Matthew Wilcox
2003-02-04T13:46:29Z

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 04:53:23PM -0800, Grant Grundler wrote:
> While it had problem reading the CD drive, it completed without
> crashing the box. hmm...seems DMA was disabled at some point
> since I started with DMA enabled (default):

AIUI that's normal -- if an error occurs during DMA, the spec says we
drop down to PIO. But I thought that was only for the retry, not for
subsequent operations.

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