On 3/28/06, Alan Cox <alan(a)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.