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From: howarth@bromo.msbb.uc.edu (Jack Howarth)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: why no option for 'ide=nocddma'?
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:43:38 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060324184338.7A87511003E@bromo.msbb.uc.edu> (raw)

   It appears that the current Linux kernel still has trouble
verifying installation CDs for Fedora Core even in the FC5
release unless users pass the 'ide=nodma' kernel option. If
the problem with CDs using dma isn't going to be fully resolved,
why can't we have a 'ide=nocddma' kernel option that would only
apply to CD/DVD drives? The current situation is unfortunate
because installations end up with 'ide=nodma' in grub.conf
which severely slows down disk i/o. Thanks in advance for
any information on this issue.
                  Jack
ps Does this issue with dma and CD/DVD drives only apply to reads
or are writes effected as well?


             reply	other threads:[~2006-03-24 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-24 18:43 Jack Howarth [this message]
2006-03-26 18:07 ` why no option for 'ide=nocddma'? Alan Cox
2006-03-30  9:10   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-03-30 10:37     ` Alan Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-30 14:27 Jack Howarth

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