Fedora Core 5 common issues and bugs

[Schlaegel]

On 3/28/06, Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 05:04:40PM -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > Or to ask it another way... if you use ide=nodma  and mediacheck
> > succeeds when before it failed.. does that mean that you should then
> > use ide=nodma  when doing the actual install on that system?
>
> Nope. The problem is a CD-R track looks something like this:
...
> On the other hand the mounted isofs image has a known size so the isofs itself
> won't try and read or prefetch outside it.

This presents the obvious question: why don't we just check the iso on
the media instead of the media itself, and thus remove this long
standing problem.