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