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Date:      Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:04:57 +0100 (CET)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        n_hibma@webweaving.org (Nick Hibma)
Cc:        dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White), havoc@Cal30B054.student.utwente.nl (Theo van Klaveren), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems with the ATA-driver
Message-ID:  <199912221204.NAA43886@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9912221228570.339-100000@localhost> from Nick Hibma at "Dec 22, 1999 12:30:08 pm"

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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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