Re: [PATCH] ide-scsi driver starts DMA too soon
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
02 Nov 2002 01:13:53 +0000
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 23:39, Khalid Aziz wrote:
> ide-scsi driver starts DMA as soon as it writes the ATAPI PACKET command
> in command register and before sending the ATAPI command. This will
> cause problems on many drives. Right way to do it is to start DMA after
> sending the ATAPI command. I am attaching a patch that fixes this. This
> patch will allow many more CD-RW drives to work reliably in DMA mode
> than do today.
>
> Marcelo, please apply.
Marcelo this is in 2.5, and 2.4-ac. Khalid is certainly correct although
making such a change in -rc rather than a pre does mean it wants extra
thought
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