It was. It was a long pending patch
> sense to check if this drive is really problematic. I would like to know
> some reports from the other people on this list, that use such a drive
> (WDAC 33100H) if they got problems with DMA on this drive. So this could
> be examined and eventually the drive considered to be normal and removed
> from this internal list.
It won't be getting removed. I've changed the text and added some notes
so its a lot clearer why it turned DMA off. A small but statistically
significant number of people saw disk corruption with that drive under
Linux with DMA enabled. Most people never saw a problem at all - enough did.
Disk corruption isnt an acceptable boot time default for Linux.
Alan
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