Disk Druid - Fedora flame #1

[William Hooper]

Gene Heskett said:
[snip]
>>> Its also bailed out on
>>> the first file from disk 2, claiming there is no disk space left
>>
>> This has nothing to do with Disk Druid.
>>
>>
>> It seems to me that in the FC1 time frame there were some issues
>> with specific chipsets that you had to use "linux ide=nodma" (I think) to
>> get installed.  Maybe that bug has come back?  Check bugzilla and report
>> it if this is repeatable on your system.
>
> Its a brand new Mach Speed motherboard, with a DX-1400 athlon on it
> and has not required that option before.  Even on the old 233MHZ P2
> motherboard it wasn't required.  That cdrom is rather slow as a reader,
> (10-12x maybe) so it may not be using dma in any event.  It
> doesn't even have a tray, just a slot it spits the disk out of, or grabs it
> and finished pulling it in when you insert it gently.

Who said that ide=nodma had anything to do with the cdrom?

> Besides, I think that should be reported as a media error as opposed
> to a space error, and all 4 disks passed the check it wanted to do
> initially.  Took it around 10 minutes per disk to do that.

So clarify for me.  Are you saying that:

a) you tried it and it didn't work

or

b) you are dismissing it out of hand

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William Hooper