Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 22:18:45 -0700 (PDT) From: sos@freebsd.org To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Cc: jehamby@lightside.com, R.L.Hesketh@ukc.ac.uk, hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD suffer from the Intel RZ1000 IDE bug? Message-ID: <199509150518.WAA22976@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199509141835.UAA26725@keltia.Freenix.FR> from "Ollivier Robert" at Sep 14, 95 08:35:49 pm
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In reply to Ollivier Robert who wrote:
>
> It seems that Jake Hamby said:
> > This is DEFINITELY something for the FreeBSD team to verify (maybe even
> > before 2.1.0 is released)! This IDE bug often causes the last 32 bits of
> > data transfer to get mangled, especially if there is some other DMA
>
> To my knowledge it only affect E-IDE drivers not IDE ones so for the moment
> as we do not support E-IDE this is not a concern. It is probably one for
> S_ren as he's writing the E-IDE driver :-)
And I know of the problem :)
By the way there isn't much point in using DMA on the IDE interface
anyway, so I simply don't use it...
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So much code to hack -- so little time
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