Totally Peeved-Fedora3 Upfrade Errors

[Mark Sargent]

On Thursday 17 February 2005 11:19 am, James Mckenzie wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
> Sent: Feb 17, 2005 9:13 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Totally Peeved-Fedora3 Upfrade Errors
>
> >It turns off DMA access for the CD drives. It'll be slower but it
> >*might* alleviate the problem you're having.
>
> Some CD devices do not implement DMA support 'correctly'.  Using this
> parameter forces all CD like devices (CD, CD-writers and DVD drives) to use
> Polled I/O mode, which is definately 'slower' for most DASD (Hard drives),
> but may not appear slower for CD drives.  If you use the ide=nodma
> parameter, you can see the effect of placing the entire IDE interface in
> PIO mode (it is much slower than DMA mode.)
>
>
>
> --
> James McKenzie
> Running Fedora Core 3 on a Thinkpad A22p with Software Suspend 2 and
> ibm-acpi .1.

Hi All,

okay, thanx guys, but, could I have that in plain English, thanx. How does it 
in fact change, possibly, my problem..? Cheers.

Mark Sargent.