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Subject[Documentation PATCH] Re: 2.4.21-pre2 IDE problems
----- Original Message -----
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: 31 Dec 2002 16:59:36 +0000
To: Marijn Ros <marijn@mad.scientist.com>
Subject: Re: 2.4.21-pre2 IDE problems

> On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 12:18, Marijn Ros wrote:
> > However, when I try the new 2.4.21-pre2 taskfile IO setting, I get a
> > 'hda: lost interrupt' message every 30 seconds (the timeout period I
> > guess) during disk IO, making the machine unusable. I know this
> > setting is experimental, but I guess you would like to know about my
> > problems before the old code is phased out completely.
>
> Taskfile I/O as opposed to ioctl is broken for PIO. I know about this
> and I've disabled it. I don't plan to fix that path for 2.4 but to keep
> the old read/write paths to reduce risk

Thanks. The attached patch tries to clarify the Configure.help based on this.

Bye,
Marijn
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