IDE DMA Blacklist?

[Jon Masters]

On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 21:08:12 -0800, Daniel Robitaille
<robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Since I know that DMA works on that drive under Warty, is there a way
> > > to override or modify that blacklist?
> >
> > The blacklist lives in $kernel_source/drivers/ide/ide-dma.c but I
> > wouldn't recommend changing that table in the first instance. There
> > might be a kernel parameter for this.

> I'm not planning in recompiling by kernel just for this.  I have 2 cd-drives
> in that machine, and the other one's dma works fine (and it's a newer
> drive anyway).  But it's a slight annoyance
> in the transition from Warty to Hoary.  I should probably report it in
> the bugzilla.

As a fixed bug?

The reason it is blacklisted is that someone believed it was
unreliable enough that they submitted a patch to get it added to the
blacklist - so if anything this is a bug fix.

:-)

Jon.