> On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Andre M. Hedrick wrote:
> >On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> >> I didn't follow the VIA thread, but I suspect we can black-list DMA
> >> for VIA chipsets.
> >>
> >
> >No you may not do a generic blacklist.
The price of that 'amen' will be to beta test the ide-driver updates
that I am working on with Michel Aubry and Andrew Derrick Balsa.
> Amen to that! I've got a VP-1 board with a K6-233 at home. It works just
> fine with a mix of IDE and SCSI, serving a PC (samba) that I use for
> development.
>
> If something's only partially implemented (like DMA), just trap it and
> don't allow that feature to be used. Don't throw the baby out with the
> bathwater!
'How does that go......no ***, grass, or gas nobody rides for free'
Anyways, welcome to a volunteer list (this is a request)
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/
Cheers,
Andre
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