Re: Check media broken?

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 10:36:54PM -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> >From the release notes:
> 
> The mediacheck function is highly sensitive, and may report some
>  usable discs as faulty. This result is often caused by disc writing
>  software that does not include padding when creating discs from ISO
>   files. For best results with the mediacheck, boot with the option:
> 
>  linux ide=nodma

With my IDE hat on on this advice is mostly junk. It may help by chance
in some cases. The fundamental underlying problem is in the core kernel code
and the maintainer of that part of the code won't even reply to emails about
it.