From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za (Lucio De Re)
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:09:55 +0200
Subject: [9fans] New venti install won't boot after 05:00 crash
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> i thought that dma problems were almost always controller/cable or master/slave
> related?  almost all the device i deal with are sata these days.  and before
> that, i stuck to scsi.
> 
Sure.  But you at Coraid and Geoff at Bell Labs are professionals, I'm
assuming (happy to be corrected) that most of us here are fumbling
amateurs and unlikely to invest our priciest resources on Plan 9
equipment.  Although, thinking about it...

> in any event, 
> -  there's a knob because i was worried about breaking old stuff.
> -  it's likely the ide driver, rather than hardware, causes this incompatability.

Good stuff.  Keep the knob and set it on by default.  Then get Geoff
and Jim to catch up with your great work, it's about time.

++L