From:	 "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
To:	 editor@lwn.net
Subject: Comment on exocore article
Date:	 Mon, 09 Jul 2001 12:18:09 -0400


You pointed to an article regarding IDE DMA being enabled in
Red Hat Linux 7.1 at http://www.exocore.com/linux/rhl71dma/

There is one critical piece of information to add to that article.
If you need to use the ide=nodma flag to install, please, PLEASE
send us the model information for your CDROM drive so that we can
add it to the "blacklist" of CDROM drives that are incompatible with
DMA.  This will make your life easier installing new versions of
Red Hat Linux, and will help everyone else with that model as well.

In order to provide us with that information, submit a bug report via
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/
Assuming your CDROM drive is "hdc", include the exact output of
cat /proc/ide/hdc/model

Thanks!

I'd send this email to exocore as well except that they insist on
web forms rather than providing an email address for feedback.

michaelkjohnson

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