From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 13:46:29 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] CMD649 driver in 2.5.5x Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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. -- "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk