Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:56:53 -0800 From: "Zoltan Frombach" <tssajo@hotmail.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk> Cc: Frode Nordahl <frode@nordahl.net> Subject: Re: 5.3-RELEASE: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt timout - what does it mean? Message-ID: <BAY2-DAV8ljBOh8s4KW0001388f@hotmail.com> References: <BAY2-DAV13Gz1iD0CWl00009b23@hotmail.com> <4191CD35.9040000@DeepCore.dk> <29DB06CF-336A-11D9-B78A-000A95A9A574@nordahl.net> <BAY2-DAV137aI4z93XA0000d6bf@hotmail.com> <41931BF6.60005@DeepCore.dk>
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Either way, I wouldn't risk it.... I am not a gambler (like Madonna is...) Zoltan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Søren Schmidt" <sos@DeepCore.dk> To: "Zoltan Frombach" <tssajo@hotmail.com> Cc: "Frode Nordahl" <frode@nordahl.net>; <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 11:59 PM Subject: Re: 5.3-RELEASE: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt timout - what does it mean? 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 without > having a master device on the same ATA channel is a non-standard > configuration you should avoid. I mean, your Samsung CD-ROM drive should > 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.. -- -Søren
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