Re: CD-ROM ide-dma blacklist amnesty drive

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 16:33:56 -0800, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> 
> >The "SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-148F" drive is listed in drive_blacklist in
> >ide-dma.c. However, this drive worked well with DMA enabled with earlier
> >kernel versions (<=2.6.8.1) where the "via82cxxx" driver did not look at
> >this blacklist. So the question: what was the reason for blacklisting this
> >(apparently working) drive? Is it still valid?
> 
> This was discussed about two months ago without a firm
> resolution as far as I can tell, in this thread:
> 
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/241862
> 
> Especially from Jens and Alan:
> 
>     http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/242226
>     http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/242228
> 
> I've been meaning to start a "CD-ROM ide-dma blacklist amnesty
> drive" ;-) The intent is to gather comments from owners of
> blacklisted drives to see if those models still deserve to be on
> the blacklist.
> 
> As for myself, I would vote for removing "PLEXTOR CD-R
> PX-W8432T" (at least firmware "1.09") from the list.  This model
> seems to work fine with DMA.  As Alexander does, I have been
> running it on VIA motherboard which only recently started
> looking at the ide-dma blacklist without trouble; that is,
> before via82cxxx started caring.

Plextor drive removed from the blacklist, thanks