From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: Assorted bugs in the PIIX drivers Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 17:12:38 +0000 Message-ID: <1132938758.3298.45.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1132929808.3298.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051125153601.GA6814@stiffy.osknowledge.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:1678 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161110AbVKYQjo (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:39:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20051125153601.GA6814@stiffy.osknowledge.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Marc Koschewski Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Gwe, 2005-11-25 at 16:36 +0100, Marc Koschewski wrote: > could it be possible to again drop the ide=nodma kernel parameter in my > configs that use reiserfs? reiserfs just bails out when I mount devices on ide > busses that miss that parameter. I somtimes had to --rebuild-tree after a boot > with DMA enabled. One to ask the IDE maintainer about for the drivers/ide/pci code. However the bugs and questions from my check only affect non hardisk devices and very early slow PIO devices so wouldn't explain problems seen with modern drive configurations. The setup for modern (UDMA) while horribly convoluted appears to be totally correct. Alan