Re: serial input overrun(s) using ide-cd

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 14 Oct 1997 19:14:54 +0100 (BST)


> I'd be willing to bet a dime that the PIO problem is a write-behind cache
> problem that is being masked by turning off interrupts during PIO
> operation, I'll bet that changing write-back to write-through "fixes"
> the problem.

On a 386 with no cache. Man that'd be clever. And most of the problem cases
have been 386 ISA or VLB