Comment Re:Optimized UDMA drivers ?? (Score 1) 129
You are right and wrong.
What happens is that the kernel bundled with Mandrake 6.0
is not compiled with the option CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO
("Use DMA by default when available") as this option is
reported to break some IDE drives at boot time - they just
won't work - whereas not compiling with this option and
setting DMA usage via hdparm -c1 /the/good/drive works.
Yet another broken-hardware-sucks kind of story :)
What happens is that the kernel bundled with Mandrake 6.0
is not compiled with the option CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO
("Use DMA by default when available") as this option is
reported to break some IDE drives at boot time - they just
won't work - whereas not compiling with this option and
setting DMA usage via hdparm -c1
Yet another broken-hardware-sucks kind of story
