Re: Problems with the ATA-driver

[Soren Schmidt]

It seems Nick Hibma wrote:
> > 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.

Agreed.

> 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.

The problem being how to get a list that is "good enough" for the
majority of cases.

-Søren


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