From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 11 08:57:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D046216A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:57:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hotmail.com (bay2-dav8.bay2.hotmail.com [65.54.246.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72CA643D45 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:57:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tssajo@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:57:00 -0800 Received: from 24.24.201.219 by BAY2-DAV8.phx.gbl with DAV; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:56:47 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [24.24.201.219] X-Originating-Email: [tssajo@hotmail.com] X-Sender: tssajo@hotmail.com From: "Zoltan Frombach" To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= References: <4191CD35.9040000@DeepCore.dk> <29DB06CF-336A-11D9-B78A-000A95A9A574@nordahl.net> <41931BF6.60005@DeepCore.dk> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:56:53 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Nov 2004 08:57:00.0762 (UTC) FILETIME=[68235BA0:01C4C7CC] cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Frode Nordahl Subject: Re: 5.3-RELEASE: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt timout - what does it mean? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:57:01 -0000 Either way, I wouldn't risk it.... I am not a gambler (like Madonna is...) Zoltan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Søren Schmidt" To: "Zoltan Frombach" Cc: "Frode Nordahl" ; Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 11:59 PM Subject: Re: 5.3-RELEASE: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt timout - what does it mean? Zoltan Frombach wrote: > I'm sure it has nothing to do with the DMA-WRITE "warning", but I hope you > know that having a slave device attached to an ATA controller without > having a master device on the same ATA channel is a non-standard > configuration you should avoid. I mean, your Samsung CD-ROM drive should > be jumper-set to master. Thats not entirely correct, you can have a lone slave and it should work just fine. However there were lots of early devices that didn't get this right which caused the belief that lone slaves aren't legit.. -- -Søren