test3 mediacheck still brain dead

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 12:11, Elliot Lee wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Andre Robatino wrote:
> >   I just burned the test3 ISOs.  (In case you're wondering how I got them
> > so fast, if you peruse Red Hat's list of mirrors, you can usually find one
> > or two that are prematurely open.)  I couldn't find a GPG-signed MD5SUM
> > file, but all the unsigned ones I found agreed.  After downloading the ISOs,
> > I checked the md5 sums, burned the CDs, and then checked the md5 sum on the
> > CD directly using the dd trick.  Everything checked.  Then when I brought
> > the disks home and did the mediacheck, the exact same thing happened as
> > with test2 - disks 1, 2, and 3 failed, passed, and failed, resp.  This didn't
> > happen with test1, so something broke in test2 and hasn't been fixed.
> 
> We did have some kernel problems with CD drives and DMA. Please try to
> turn off DMA and see if that helps at all. If you're using the installer
> to mediacheck, DMA should already be turned off in that kernel for CD
> drives... We definitely need to get as much info on the problem as
> possible, so anything you can find would be helpful.

Unfortunately, not true anymore -- the kernel on the CD is not longer
the -BOOT kernel (so that you can boot with acpi=on for hardware which
requires ACPI support) and DMA is still on for the main kernels.

Cheers,

Jeremy