> > beginning with 2.4.21-pre1 the kernel disables DMA on my
> > regular ATA harddrives.
> >
snip
>
> I think that they are superflous debugging messages, and that DMA is
>
> actually re-enabled silently afterwards. I could be wrong, though.
Probably you are right.
I've just run bonnie++ (1.93) with 2.4.20 and 2.4.21-pre2
and there are NO significant differences.
Sorry for the noise!
Helmut.
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