On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 10:51:51PM +0100, Vivien Chappelier wrote: > > > This tells the aic7xxx to use DMA safe memory for I/O. > > > > That seems totally inappropriate. The unchecked dma option is for > > ancient ISA DMA controllers that didnt do the 16Mb check. If you > > find you need it debug your pci remapper > > This is used when scaning for devices (drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c) . When > this flag is not set, the code uses memory from the stack (unsigned char > scsi_result0[256]; in scan_scsis) instead of kmallocating it DMA safe as > it should on non-coherent systems. Maybe this is the thing to change? Indeed, it is. I thought this one died ages ago. Ralf
