It seems Michael Class wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Doug wrote:
> >
> > > First a question, namely what is the current state of the ATA
> > > drivers in -current? Are they reliable (where "reliable" goes by -current
> > > terms obviously)? I finally am in a position to test them with a new
> > > workstation that has IDE disks, so I thought I'd give it a go.
> >
>
> I am using the new ATA-drivers for quite some time now. On a home-PC
> they work great. On my Laptop (Omnibook 5700) they only work if I
> change the code to not switch-on Generic DMA-Support. Basically I
> change the code in ata-dma.c::ata_dmainit at the very to NOT switch
> on generic DMA-mode even if the drive claims that it could do DMA.
> The Notebook has an
> "TOSHIBA MK2101MAN/B1.06 D" / piomode=4, dmamode=2, udmamode=1.
>
> The old wd-driver DMA did not work for this machine, but fortunately
> it was not switched on by default. This needs to be configurable before
> the the new ATA-drivers are made the default!
That an area that I havn't quite decided on yet, but I'm aware of
the potential problems (in fact I chose the default to find out
how severe a problem this might be).
> Otherwise I am very happy with these drivers.
Thanks!
-Søren
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