Installer uses dma for cd-rom?

[Noah Silva [Mailing list]]

This kind of thing makes me wonder how Windows and OS/2 manage to
install... is there a huge list in the installer of known broken hardware?

At any rate, at some point, broken is broken.

 -- noah silva

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Dennis Bjorklund wrote:

> It seems like fedora turns on dma for cd-rom drives, and that does not
> work on a computer I have. Redhat 9 however works fine to install on that
> machine.
>
> I can get it to install if I give the kernel the parameter ide=nodma.
>
> Is this really a good change? There are a lot of broken computers out
> there that does not work with dma for the cdrom.
>
> If it's not a mistake but an intended change, then I suggest that a
> help text is added to help users find the ide=nodma.
>
> --
> /Dennis
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