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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>
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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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