Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:59:50 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk> To: Zoltan Frombach <tssajo@hotmail.com> Cc: Frode Nordahl <frode@nordahl.net> Subject: Re: 5.3-RELEASE: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt timout - what does it mean? Message-ID: <41931BF6.60005@DeepCore.dk> In-Reply-To: <BAY2-DAV137aI4z93XA0000d6bf@hotmail.com> References: <BAY2-DAV13Gz1iD0CWl00009b23@hotmail.com> <4191CD35.9040000@DeepCore.dk> <29DB06CF-336A-11D9-B78A-000A95A9A574@nordahl.net> <BAY2-DAV137aI4z93XA0000d6bf@hotmail.com>
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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
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