On Thursday 17 February 2005 11:19 am, James Mckenzie wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Feb 17, 2005 9:13 AM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > 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.
