The gawd-almighty merged DRM in Silent Hunter V thread

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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

my attention span has diminished over the last few weeks of turmoil

Nah, my bad. It wasn't the clearest of citations in my first post.

Edit:

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Edit: Oh wait, I read the full thing, I am getting the impression there is no "damage", just that the device can become "unaccessible by the OS". Which appears to be remedied by reinstalling its drivers.

Yes, that is correct.

However, this problem is unrelated to the problem of old versions of SF
switching devices in to 16bit PIO mode. That can cause physical damage
to a small number of optical drives and causes a reduction in speed of all
IDE connected components.

That problem is not confirmed by SF.
Neither are the enforced reboots, despite the SF induced reboot being reproducible.