Re: [Fedora] Re: Did I make a mistake in starting with Fedora Core 4?

[Dave Gutteridge <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>    This is probably a dumb question, but have you tried booting with 
> ide=nodma ?
It's not a dumb question at all, at least not to me. I do not know how 
to "boot with ide=nodma". How do I set that so that the boot process 
will execute with that configuration?
Perhaps I don't understand the implications of that command, but that 
does seem to run counter to what I've been hearing so far. I had gained 
the impression that DMA is something I want to have running for optimal 
performance, and that my current DMA configuration is somehow flawed. Am 
I wrong in my understanding that DMA is always desireable?
Dave