http://blog.finnix.org/2006/03/22/improved-dma-support-coming-soon/ Finnix development weblog Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:34:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://blog.finnix.org/2006/03/22/improved-dma-support-coming-soon/comment-page-1/#comment-229 Finnix Blog » Finnix Development Update Tue, 02 May 2006 22:36:29 +0000 http://www.finnix.org/blog/2006/03/22/improved-dma-support-coming-soon/#comment-229 [...] This also means that many boot-time options have been removed, because there are now automate. Of the top of my head, I removed nobootide, bootusb, nobootusb, bootfirewire, nobootusb2, bootscsi, nousb, nousb2, nofirewire, noscsi, nopcmcia, and dma. Automatically loading DMA-capable modules makes me worry (see this blog post), but out of the 30 or so different setups I’ve tested, only one drive has a problem with DMA, and it’s a DVD burner that is frankly broken in other respects as well. [...] [...] This also means that many boot-time options have been removed, because there are now automate. Of the top of my head, I removed nobootide, bootusb, nobootusb, bootfirewire, nobootusb2, bootscsi, nousb, nousb2, nofirewire, noscsi, nopcmcia, and dma. Automatically loading DMA-capable modules makes me worry (see this blog post), but out of the 30 or so different setups I’ve tested, only one drive has a problem with DMA, and it’s a DVD burner that is frankly broken in other respects as well. [...]

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