Re: 5.3-RELEASE: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt timout - what does it mean?

Either way, I wouldn't risk it.... I am not a gambler (like Madonna is...)

Zoltan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Søren Schmidt" <sos_at_DeepCore.dk>
To: "Zoltan Frombach" <tssajo_at_hotmail.com>
Cc: "Frode Nordahl" <frode_at_nordahl.net>; <freebsd-current_at_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..

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-Søren