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From: "Holzrichter, Bruce" <bruce.holzrichter@monster.com>
To: "'Dave Jones'" <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
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Subject: RE: 2.5 Changes doc update.
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> IDE.
> ~~~~

> - Known problems with the current IDE code. 
>   o  Simplex IDE devices (eg Ali15x3) are missing DMA sometimes
>   o  Serverworks OSB4 may panic on bad blocks or other non 
> fatal errors
>   o  PCMCIA IDE hangs on eject
>   o  Most PCMCIA devices have unload races and may oops on eject
>   o  Modular IDE does not yet work, modular IDE PCI modules sometimes
>      oops on loading
>   o  Silicon Image controllers give really bad performance currently.
> 

FWIW to you, though I know this is mostly x86 centric, there are Endian
issues with current 2.5 IDE, and Big Endian machines such as sparc64 won't
work right now with IDE.

B.
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