On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 02:28:36PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Dave Jones wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 12:47:26PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote: > > > Using -pad very rarely works, and ide=nodma only works in about half the > > > cases. > > > This really needs to be fixed, it's been broke at least as far back as > > > FC1. > > As I detailed in a mail last week, there are so many variables its > > hard to nail this down. > > Its so prone to failure, if its not fixed by FC4 release then IMO it > should be disabled. It just confuses end users if it randomly fails. > > I have a feeling the failures are related to the fedora custom kernels > being used though. The only patches we have that could be relevant here are patches we've come up with whilst chasing this issue. It should be 100% reproducable on a kernel.org kernel. Dave