Re: 2.5.6: ide driver broken in PIO mode

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:41:42 +0000 (UTC)


In article <Pine.LNX.4.21.0203131339050.26768-100000@serv>,
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
>I first noticed the problem on my Amiga, but I can reproduce it on an ia32
>machine, when I turn off dma with hdparm.

With PIO, the current IDE/bio stuff doesn't like the write-multiple
interface and has bad interactions.

Jens, you talked about a patch from Supparna two weeks ago, any
progress?

Linus
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