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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 11:24:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
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Subject: ata0-master: non aligned DMA transfer attempted
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I write a program that writes into a raw device directly. Although the
program runs OK, the system prints messages like:

ata0-master: non aligned DMA transfer attempted

What exactly happens here? Is there any problem in my program? 

Thanks.

-Zhihui


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