Re: Triton DMA

mlord (mlord@pobox.com)
Sat, 29 Nov 1997 13:15:27 -0500

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Shaw Carruthers wrote:
>
> On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, mlord wrote:
>
> > You can still turn it on (hdparm -d1), and it will mostly work
> > but without full error detection/correction.
> >
>
> In this case is it using standard DMA (as in -X34 )

That is somewhat unclear. The motherboard chipset may be trying to use
UDMA,
regardless of what you (hdparm -X34) tell the drive to do.

Linux currently includes no knowledge of what various UDMA chipsets
are programmed to do, or how to modify them.

Thay may soon change.

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mlord@pobox.com
The Linux IDE guy

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