Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memoryhole mapping related bug?!

[Robert Hancock]

Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Ok,.. that sounds reasonable,.. so the whole thing might (!) actually be
> a hardware design error,... but we just don't use that hardware any
> longer when accessing devices via sata_nv.
>
> So this doesn't solve our problem with PATA drives or other devices
> (although we had until now no reports of errors with other devices) and
> we have to stick with iommu=soft.
>
> If one use iommu=soft the sata_nv will continue to use the new code for
> the ADMA, right?

Right, that shouldn't affect it.
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