Alan Cox wrote:
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>>> libata.dma=3 will stop DMA being used for CF devices (except those that
>>> decide to pretend to be ATA classes). This one comes up a lot as many CF
>>> adapters are simply not adequate for UDMA.
>> Perhaps the kernel could do this automatically once it sees the
>> status code?
> 
> We then hurt all the people with perfectly good working UDMA CF devices.
> The kernel will eventually fall back from UDMA to PIO but it favours
> working hardware by default.

I suspect they meant fall back on seeing the ABRT/ICRC error combination 
- which it does, eventually. Falling back on one occurrence would be too 
aggressive, though, as they can happen once in a blue moon, so there's 
little reason to slow down a working setup forever because of it..
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