I couldn't agree more. One improvement would be to downgrade the
transfer mode one step at a time (udma133->udma100->udma66->udma33). As
it is now it jumps straight at udma33 as soon as it encounters one
little error.

--
Thomas Hertz

>   > Secondly, is it possible to make the driver not downgrade the transfer 
>   > mode when it experiences these DMA errors once in a while? They really 
>   > only occur like once an hour or so, and that shouldn't be a problem.
>
>It's wonderul if IDE driver worked somehow more
>intelligently.  ;-)
>
>-- Kazushi
>  
>