Hard Disk DMA/Kernel question

[Garrett Goebel]

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
>
> Ok, kernel gurus:  My laptop gives several lines of DMA
> failures on the hard drive when Linux is starting up.
> I believe this just indicates that it's not a DMA
> compatible hard drive.  Is there a paramater I can pass
> the kernel at start time to tell it not to bother trying
> DMA disk access?

ide=nodma

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> Garrett Goebel wrote:
> >
> > DSL modem is a misnomer.
>
> I presonally don't buy the "Modulator-Demodulator"
> construction - I think it's apocryphal, but it's pretty
> universally accepted now.  I just can't see geeks
> abbreviating the words that way.  "ModDe" or "Moddy" I'd
> credit.

Trolling? No matter, believe what you wish. It still a free country last
time I checked. Well, with a couple exceptions: Bill of Rights Status Report
http://www.mv.com/ipusers/arcade/borsrb.htm.

Duane Attaway wrote:
>
> I thought DSL was simply ISDN, but one step further using
> the analog component.

I think that may be true for HDSL... but not necessarily the other *DSL's.
Though I do stand corrected on modulation. I went off to do some reading and
lo and behold, there is a lot of clever modulation going on in DSL
technologies. Gee, I guess I should do a little more reading before I go off
at the mouth?

http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~jones/cscie129/lectures/lecture13/DSL/DSL.ht
ml
http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/~frank/surp98/article2/ajh8/xDSL-a2-ch2.html

So perhaps I can still rant when people say cable modem... but I'll refrain
from ranting about dsl modems ;)

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