media check message

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Tue Nov 9 17:58:26 UTC 2004


On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 09:44:53AM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
> This is true, yet incomplete. Sometimes it's the actual CD-ROM unit that
> is at fault. The installer should mention that as well. Example:
> 
> "Or perhaps the CD-ROM unit needs cleaning or is deffective."

Actually it should have been disabled, the media check in FC3 is broken
unless you burned the CD with padding. The ide-cd driver is broken and
FC uses ide-cd not ide-scsi (sanely for all sorts of other reasons).




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