Re: Linux 2.4.21-pre1 IDE

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Dec 12 2002 - 08:10:48 EST


On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 01:35, Erik Andersen wrote:
> hda: DMA disabled
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> What's up with this? For each drive in my system it claims it
> has disabled DMA. But hdparm later reports that DMA is in fact
> enabled. In fact, later on the kernel ever reports the drive
> as being in UDMA 100 mode... I think these "DMA disabled"
> messages are bogus.

Cosmetic and known. It in fact turns DMA back on - quietly

> ide2 at 0x1800-0x1807,0xac02 on irq 11
> hda: host protected area => 1
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> hda: 160836480 sectors (82348 MB) w/1863KiB Cache, CHS=10011/255/63, UDMA(100)
>
> Now we see the funky "host protected area => 1" message. As
> discussed earlier with Andre, this message should be removed from
> the kernel. The message as written implies that the driv

Before 2.4.21 agreed

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