[CLUE-Tech] RH 7.2 DMA Woes

[BOF]

As I recall, with RH 7.1 dma was enabled for installation, which was not 
the usual practice of other vendors at the time. This led to problems, 
especially on Toshiba laptops, and RH published an article with a fix of 
passing the installation program a switch to turn off dma.

Unfortunately I cannot find the article, either in my office or on the 
RH website.Maybe someone reading this can remember the switch.

So perhaps the problem is not in your computer, but in the RH 
installation program.

BOF

Jeremiah Stanley wrote:

>Just doing a sanity check...
>
>Has anyone else had trouble with their ide controllers with the kernel
>that ships with the RH7.2 installer? I am getting a lot of DMA errors and
>it basically freaks the drive out. I cannot discern whether it is the
>controller or the drive that is eating it on the install.
>
>Let me know if this is just me being dumb or an actual error...
>
>JStanley
>