On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Ove Ewerlid wrote:
> Andre Hedrick wrote:
> >
> > That is because one could enable the chipset with out AUTODMA and then
> > try, but crash the system, to retune the drive but the chipset is still
> > set at PIO 0. Thus attempting to do DMA transfers from the drive to a
> > PIO 0 configured host adapter will CRASH........
> >
> > This will be fixed or is pixed in 2.3.99pre2
>
> Just tried it with 2.3.99pre3 and the DMA crash is still there (20262
> chipset).
> Still works fine with no DMA (at reduced speed).
> (This time I saw a crash error message saying that DMA was attempted
> while
> not supported by the chipset, consistent with what you say above.)
What was the message?
Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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