Re: IDE todo list

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Sun Mar 23 2003 - 06:20:53 EST


On Sun, Mar 23 2003, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23 2003, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > - Add ATAPI virtual DMA
> > > - Add DMA active irq poll trick
> > ...
> > > - ADMA full support
> > > - Mark Lord/Andre ideas on LBA28/LBA48
> >
> > Will anything of this enable SG_IO via IDE-SCSI to do DMA with 2448 or
> > 2352 bytes per block, or have other means to reduce the system load
> > when writing a CD?
>
> SG_IO can already do that, it's been able to do that for a long time in
> 2.5.

Correction, use ide-cd in 2.5 and it will do that. Don't use ide-scsi
for anything but tapes in 2.5

-- 
Jens Axboe

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