slow FC4 to FC5 upgrade
Jim Cornette
fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Sat Mar 25 20:11:04 UTC 2006
Tim wrote:
> Tim:
>>> I am curious as to why DMA might foul up mediacheck or installations,
>>> but be okay once you have an installed system?
>
> Paul Howarth:
>> The kernel code for detecting the end of the data on an IDE CD doesn't
>> work reliably when DMA is on.
>
> Hmm, sounds like something that ought to be fixed, rather than worked
> around. Surely it's possible?
>
Talk to the kernel maintainer who is responsible for the code.
Jim
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