Re: [SLE] disk error problems

From: Carlos E. R. (robin1.listas_at_tiscali.es)
Date: 11/24/03

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    The Sunday 2003-11-23 at 16:06 -0500, Damon Register wrote:

    > which mentioned SeekComplete. That said there could be problems with
    > DMA so I turned that in YaST, Hardware, IDE DMA for all drives. Still
    > I got the error messages. hdc is the DVD drive. I realized that I
    > still had the SuSE DVD in the drive from installing some more programs
    > so I removed the DVD and the error messages stop. I put a CD data disc
    > in the drive and still no error messages.
    >
    > Can anyone explain why the SuSE 9.0 DVD causes those error messages?

    Who cares? :-)

    It is a DVD, so you don't write to it and spoil it. And you can read it,
    as you installed SuSE, don't you? If it works, don't mend it.

    And, if you disable DMA your DVD won't be fast enough for movies. Also
    your HDs will be noticeably slower.

    -- 
    Cheers,
           Carlos Robinson
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