Totally Peeved-Fedora3 Upfrade Errors

[Paul Howarth]

Mark Sargent wrote:
> On Thursday 17 February 2005 11:19 am, James Mckenzie wrote:
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
>>Sent: Feb 17, 2005 9:13 AM
>>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>>Subject: Re: Totally Peeved-Fedora3 Upfrade Errors
>>
>>
>>>It turns off DMA access for the CD drives. It'll be slower but it
>>>*might* alleviate the problem you're having.
>>
>>Some CD devices do not implement DMA support 'correctly'.  Using this
>>parameter forces all CD like devices (CD, CD-writers and DVD drives) to use
>>Polled I/O mode, which is definately 'slower' for most DASD (Hard drives),
>>but may not appear slower for CD drives.  If you use the ide=nodma
>>parameter, you can see the effect of placing the entire IDE interface in
>>PIO mode (it is much slower than DMA mode.)
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>James McKenzie
>>Running Fedora Core 3 on a Thinkpad A22p with Software Suspend 2 and
>>ibm-acpi .1.
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> okay, thanx guys, but, could I have that in plain English, thanx. How does it 
> in fact change, possibly, my problem..? Cheers.

Your problem appeared to be that your media wasn't being read properly 
from your CD drive. Turning off DMA in this way *may* fix it.

P.S. Your timezone setting is still set for EST (-0500) instead of 
Japanese time (+0900).

Paul.