From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <200307302312.h6UNCS324747@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Warn about taskfile?
To: pavel@suse.cz (Pavel Machek)
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 19:12:28 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: alan@redhat.com (Alan Cox), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (kernel list)
In-Reply-To: <20030730230332.GD144@elf.ucw.cz> from "Pavel Machek" at Gor 31, 2003 01:03:32 
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> Can you explain a bit more? If multi_mode needs taskfile perhaps we
> need to kill compilation? [Attached patch probably is not enough,
> AFAICS multimode can be turned on without this config option, but it
> should be clear what I mean.]

You need taskfile to get the multiread/write cases right when you
hit stuff like errors

> If I want safest possible configuration for 2.6.0, is
> CONFIG_TASKFILE_IO=n, CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=n and hdparm -c 1
> /dev/hda good idea?

NFS, read only.

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