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Subject: Re: OSB4 in impossible state
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Martin Wilck <Martin.Wilck@Fujitsu-Siemens.com>
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On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 11:23, Martin Wilck wrote:
> Hmm - seems that DMA really doesn't work as it should. In this case my
> patch really only prevents the crash. For the moment, I can only advise
> you to start the kernel with the hda=nodma option.

Lots of older CD-ROM devices don't support DMA, so it may well not be a
controller problem this time. The other stuff is fixed in the current
-ac tree.

Alan

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