Hats off to the Developers

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 08:21:30PM -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
 > Other than media check not working - FC4T2 so far has been very usable,
 > at least for me.

This problem has been around for a long time, it'd be really good
to get to a release one day where it gets nailed for good.

ide=nodma is a workaround for the vast majority of folks who see
this problem, but there are also some others who seem to be hitting
other problem(s).  It's also somewhat difficult to add black/whitelists
to automatically work around this issue due to the number of variables

- cd drive manufacturer
- cd drive firmware revision
- cd media manufacturer
- ide chipset vendor
- ide chipset bios parameters
- length of ide cabling
- quality of ide cabling
- other devices on same cables
- buggy kernel drivers (seems everytime someone looks into this
  problem another bunch of issues get churned up).

		Dave