Tips for passing the media check

[Paul Howarth]

Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 13:39 +0000, Simon Andrews wrote:
>> Just as a thought - why is nocddma not made the default in the install
>> kernel (ie the one used during install rather than the one which is 
>> actually installed).  Are there any downsides to this?
> 
> Possibly that drive speed will be a lot slower.  It's not much fun
> trying to do just a basic install that takes about two hours.
> 
>> It would save a lot of these explanatory messages after every
>> release...
> 
> DMA actually working would be more preferable.  This problem has been
> around for quite some time.

Indeed, and turning off DMA doesn't always fix the problem either. Alan 
Cox suggests just not bothering with the media check at all.

Paul.