Re: libata and DMA quirks

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On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 13:10 +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> > It doesn't use DMA to transfer the bulk of ATAPI ? I know it uses PIO
> > for the CDB but the rest of the transfer isn't done with DMA ?
> >   
>    Like I said, DMA is used only for the *block* transfer commands for 
> which the transfer size would always be a multiple of 16 bytes.

Ok, I see. That might explain why I never saw a problem not doing
anything special with drivers/ide.

Cheers,
Ben.


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