Check media broken?
Alan Cox
alan at redhat.com
Sat Nov 26 09:07:34 UTC 2005
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.
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