What I hope is not in FC3

[Jim Cornette]

Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
>>2.4.x works 2.6.x doesnt. Upgrade to the ide-scsi driver and it will work
>>as will eject.
> 
> 
> Eject doesn't work on 2.6?  On my FC2 box it works fine.
> 
> nb. what's the problem with "md5sum /dev/cdrom", since "dd if=/dev/cdrom 
> bs=2048 count=[number of sectors] | md5sum" works.  So obviously the 
> problem is that tries to read past the end of the CD, isn't this 
> information included on the CD, can't this information be used to limit 
> the size of the device?  Or is there something I'm not getting that causes 
> end of device I/O errors to be required.
> 
> (Of course DVD's have a 32KB not 2KB sector size which would screw up 
> md5sum's even if it stopped reading at the end of the device cause ISO 
> images are 2KB multiples, maybe cdrecord should be fixed to auto-pad large 
> images (>1GB) to a multiple of 32KB?)
> 
> Cheers,
> MaZe.
> 

I started the installation with no parameters and disc 1 failed. I then 
rebooted and entered
linux ide=nodma
and checked disc 1 again. The disc passed and so did the other 3 discs.

Dave Jones suggested the option on the regular fedora-list in response 
to a user that experienced the error.

I don't know if adding the ide-scsi option would have worked as well.

Jim