> i thought that dma problems were almost always controller/cable or > master/slave > related? almost all the device i deal with are sata these days. and before > that, i stuck to scsi. > Sure. But you at Coraid and Geoff at Bell Labs are professionals, I'm assuming (happy to be corrected) that most of us here are fumbling amateurs and unlikely to invest our priciest resources on Plan 9 equipment. Although, thinking about it...
> in any event, > - there's a knob because i was worried about breaking old stuff. > - it's likely the ide driver, rather than hardware, causes this > incompatability. Good stuff. Keep the knob and set it on by default. Then get Geoff and Jim to catch up with your great work, it's about time. ++L
