Fedora Core 3 - upgrade notes

[Satish Balay]

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