Re: 2.4.1-pre10 slowdown at boot.

Tim Fletcher (tim@parrswood.manchester.sch.uk)
Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:25:16 +0000 (GMT)

> > Are you using a VIA ide chipset? because a much slower version of the
> > driver has been put in recently
>
> Yes, I am. Is it THAT slow? That could be it, I will try to be more
> patient on next boot.

I think that it is a temporey "safe but slow" driver until Vojtech Pavlik
gets the driver to a state he and Andre Hendrick are happy with. iirc the
driver has dma disabled for all VIA chipsets

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