media check errors w/ 3.91

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 02:28:36PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
 > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 12:47:26PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
 > >  > Using -pad very rarely works, and ide=nodma only works in about half the 
 > >  > cases.
 > >  > This really needs to be fixed, it's been broke at least as far back as 
 > >  > FC1.
 > > As I detailed in a mail last week, there are so many variables its
 > > hard to nail this down.
 > 
 > Its so prone to failure, if its not fixed by FC4 release then IMO it 
 > should be disabled. It just confuses end users if it randomly fails.
 > 
 > I have a feeling the failures are related to the fedora custom kernels 
 > being used though.

The only patches we have that could be relevant here are patches
we've come up with whilst chasing this issue.  It should be
100% reproducable on a kernel.org kernel.

		Dave