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Re: HD in PIO Mode since kernel 2.6.14




On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Wackojacko wrote:

> >>I don't have the nvidia modules and really don't want them. I'd much
> >>rather stay with 2.6.12 than live with the pain of a binary module
> >>tainting my kernel.
> > 
> > 
> > if you have a motherboard that used the nvidia chipset for ide,
> > than too late .... you have no choice if you want [u]dma mode
> > otherwise, you're stuck in ata-33 mode w/o dma even if your disk
> > is superfast 15K rpm ata-133 disks
> > 
> I have an nforce4 motherboard running dma enabled with the standard 
> nforce2 ide driver from the kernel :).

bingo ..  exactly ... nvidia like to control *your pc* even
if it's not video or (nvidia) network 

c ya
alvin



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