Subject: Re: DPWS500/Pyxis bugs, corrupt memory etc.
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/01/2000 09:54:52
On Tue, 01 Feb 2000 00:14:25 -0600 
 seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) wrote:

 > >And if you have IDE disable dma. I just commented out a small block in
 > >pciide.c.  Perhaps some one could add a config value to disable IDE DMA.
 > >A note about this in the faq would be good too.
 > 
 > FWIW, I've got an Alpha (PC164/500) using DMA in pciide, and I haven't had
 > any crashes in quite a while, even under a fair amount of abuse.

Note, the bug that he's describing is pretty specific to early DPW models.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>