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From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: alan@redhat.com: Linux 2.4.20-pre7-ac2 - How's the IDE thing coming?
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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:55:15 -0400 (EDT)
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> In terms of IDE reliability - how would you rate it? Is it 'safe' again,
> or is the IDE thing still shaping up?

Im cautiously trusting it. I use it for day to day work but I do have 
backups.

- PIO mode has performance problems, especially hdparm -u0
- There are some crash corner cases left on load/unloads somewhere
- pcmcia hangs on card eject
- PIO taskfile write causes lots of missed IRQ but doesnt seem to lose
  data
- Something isnt 100% with the serverworks "dont UDMA on OSB4" logic
- Simplex controllers we dont run in DMA mode yet (mostly shows up on ALi)

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