> BTW unless I'm misreading the i386 code it'll not fail here, but > allocate memory. Surely that will cause failures later if you > rely on it failing? If you don't rely on it then changing x86-64 > will also not help you. Eww that'll do strange things. Ok so we do in fact need some kind of proper way to ask if a device is DMA capable ? Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html