Re: Fedora Core 5: Still needs ide=nodma for mediacheck

[M A Young <m a young durham ac uk>]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Horst von Brand wrote:

> I burned CDs for FC5 under rawhide (up to date as of yesterday), and wasted
> several CD blanks when the nediacheck uniformly told me they were bad... a
> recheck after booting with "linux mediacheck ide=nodma" declared them in
> good health. I found the above workaround by surfing the net, for FC4.

An alternative solution is to pad the disk with blank space when you burn
it (eg. add padsize=512k to the cdrecord options).

	Michael Young