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From: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
To: Martin Wilck <Martin.Wilck@Fujitsu-Siemens.com>
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Subject: Re: ServerWorks OSB4 in impossible state
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> > Yeah I expect to take heat for this one from ServerWorks and it may cost
> > me later, but nobody else has got the guts to press the issue for the
> > correct solution.
> 
> Let me know if we can help. I have no personal contacts to ServerWorks,
> but we are a large customer of them and may be able to exert some
> additional pressure. The current situation (IDE DMA must be disabled)
> is hardly acceptable for us anyway.

AFAIK 2.4.18 as well as 2.4.19-preEARLY seemed to work flawlessly w/ OSB4
even in DMA modes. How's the code there then? Is it dangerous to use?

T.
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