Bug#321362: installation report

[Eric Stern <egstern@speakeasy.net>]

The using_dma setting was 0.  I changed it to 1 but that didn't help.  
What did work was
to switch to the VT2 right after boot and doing:

modprobe ide-cd

then going back to the installer.  I don't know why that would work, but 
it seemed to make
CD reads work reliably three times.

    Eric Stern


Frans Pop wrote:

> On Friday 05 August 2005 04:29, Eric Stern wrote:
>  
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> > There was a problem reading data from the CDROM.  Please make sure it
> > is in the drive.  If retrying does not work, you should check the
> > integrity of your CDROM.
> >    
>
> It may be that your CD drive does not like DMA enabled.
> Could you try switching to VT2 (alt-F2) and the do the following:
> # cat /proc/ide/hdc/settings
> (You may need to replace hdc if that is not your CD drive.)
> Check the value for "using_dma". If it is 1, do the following:
> # echo "using_dma:0" >/proc/ide/hdc/settings
> if it is 0, echo "using_dma:1" instead.
>
> Switch back to the installer using alt-F1 and try again.
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