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Subject: Re: WRITE_DMA failures on 5.3 (but NOT on 4.10)
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DanGer wrote:
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> 
> 
> i have the same issue on brand new 200gb ata maxtor hard drive. i had
> the same issue on 5.2.1, but when i upgraded to 5.3 i decided to turn on
> ata dma but after 9 days of uptime it froze..no logs, whatever...so i
> turned ata dma off for now, and i will stay and watch what will happen..

That's very helpful, thank you. The behaviour you describe - machine 
freezing - is exactly what I have experienced. I'm feeling vaguely 
optimistic now :-)

> 
> but there should be some other fix, because i don't want to keep my
> disc in pio mode :/

Absolutely. But I guess, since I'm not going to try to produce a fix 
myself, I can't whinge too loudly. A workaround is what I need right now 
and I hope you've confirmed that this is one.

Peter.

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