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 Re: 5.3-RELEASE: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt timout - what does
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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=20
> without having a master device on the same ATA channel is a non-standar=
d=20
> configuration you should avoid. I mean, your Samsung CD-ROM drive shoul=
d=20
> 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..

--=20

-S=F8ren