Re: Problems with the ATA-driver

[Nick Hibma]

> If you end up doing this, can you have the driver print a line letting 
> people know this is intentional?  i.e., 
> 
> ad0: DMA disabled: This drive does not properly support DMA mode.
> ad0: To force DMA for this drive (at your own risk) set flags 0xXX.

Let's not go the Linux way and make the boot messages slow down booting.

Mentioning it in the manpage should be sufficient I guess. Blacklisting
devices sounds like a good idea if tey fail to work correctly in many
cases.

Nick

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