On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote: > The nodma flag seems to be a common enough install issue (old BIOS ??) > that I am slightly of the mind that this flag should be built into the > install CDROM. I have no way of measuring the impact of this feature > mismatch but those of you that need the flag should not be silent. No its not a bios issue.. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-November/msg00455.html And those who install with 'ide=nodma' should remove this option from grub after install - otherwise all IO will get slow. Satish
