It seems Theo van Klaveren wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote:
>
> > > Harddisks: Western Digital Caviar (2.0 GB), non-DMA and
> > > Western Digital Caviar (2.5 GB), DMA-33.
> > > Mainboard: Asus P5A-B Super7
> > > Chipset: ALi Aladdin V AGPset
> >
> > It probably because I relaxed the requirements for doing WDMA on disks
> > that doesn't bother to tell whihc verson of the ATA spec they conform to.
> > I think your case is the more seldom one, but I'm this close to
> > blacklisting all WD/Maxtor drives, that would make life alot easier...
>
> Hmmm... what exactly does the 'blacklisting all WD/Maxtor drives' mean?
> That I can't use the ATA driver, or that the timeout for these drives
> is increased?
It means they will not do DMA without user intervention...
-Søren
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