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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCH #upstream-fixes 1/4] libata: fix device iteration
 bugs
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:18:57 -0500
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Alan Cox wrote:
>> Heck, the Linux support for Triton DMA made us the first
>> widely available O/S with UDMA support for that (or any) chipset!
>> Predating even Redmond by a good six months or more!
> 
> Triton 1 didn't have UDMA - are you thinking of the later chipsets ?
..

Ooops.. poor memory here for terminology.

Triton was the first Intel IDE controller with PCI bus-master DMA,
and Linux was the first O/S to take advantage of it:  82371FB.