Re: media check message

["Doncho N. Gunchev" <mr700 mr700 cjb net>]

On 2004-11-09 (Tuesday) 19:58, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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).
> 
    I see the new kernels (at least from 2.6.8-1.624) have ide-scsi.ko,
but there's nothing about it in the release notes. Without this message
I would not even notice it...

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