Disk Druid - Fedora flame #1

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 20 January 2005 08:29, William Hooper wrote:
>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?
>
Somehow its always been mentioned in that context before.

>> 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

Basicly b, but I haven't restarted the install again to test it 
either.  And while I'm open for corrections, that machine has been 
useing dma as autodetected by the booting kernel without any oddities 
for a couple of months.

I'm going to see if I can repeat the install yet today, and get the 
same out of space error again at the top of cd disk 2.

>--
>William Hooper

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