Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3729 mails)

[David Corking <dcorking@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 30 May 2003, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:

> 
> Sounds like my problem. Just bought me a 52X drive and I
> have this problem. Before I start using my old cdrom 2X
> with its own bunch of minor problems, I would like to know
> if it is possible to lower the speed by using hwscan at the

I got some speed-related problems when I upgraded my motherboard to
one that was capable of the 

I suggest google on hdparm - there are some tips around the web on using
hdparm to detect your CD-ROMs preferred DMA options.  Then type
these in as kernel options when installing.

Of course it will do you no harm (except slow you down) to use no dma
at all for the install (sorry I can't remember the boot option syntax
for dma) 

(btw don't forget to try this without ACPI)

Just a shot in the dark.  David