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 -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
