Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:10:49 +0200 | From | "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <> | Subject | Re: why no option for 'ide=nocddma'? |
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On 3/26/06, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > On Gwe, 2006-03-24 at 13:43 -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: > > release unless users pass the 'ide=nodma' kernel option. If > > the problem with CDs using dma isn't going to be fully resolved, > > why can't we have a 'ide=nocddma' kernel option that would only > > It is nothing to do with DMA. See the postings in 2004 on the subject. > EOF handling in the block layer and IDE layer don't work for the case > where the size of a block device is not precisely defined > > None fo the current block layer maintainers care about fixing it and > nobody else has submitted changes. Feel free to do that. > > Fortunately the drivers/ide layer will hopefully be going away soon
EOF handling error has nothing to do with IDE layer, the same problem can be reproduced using libata+PATA patches.
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