tron@zhadum.de (Matthias Scheler) writes:
> In article <199912312113.NAA01197@nbwww.isc.org>,
> 	timlee@netcom.com writes:
> > The generic and install kernels for i386 should have DMA modes
> > disabled for ATA/IDE disks.
> 
> Disabling DMA support in GENERIC is a very, very bad idea. This will result
> in performance loss for lots of people just because of a few broken
> motherboads. Even worse, some people will believe that NetBSD doesn't
> support IDE DMA at all and will switch to another operating system.
> 
> The only reasonable sollution is to add a quirk table and disable DMA
> for the chipset on your particular motherboard by default.

Weren't the corrected soft error problems determined to be a
(non-critical) software bug, rather than anything else?


cgd
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