For those users that have seen the following message while operating their systems
id_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only It's usually caused by the chipset not performing all the dma functionality. This can be corrected by hdparm -d 0 device e.g. <prompt> hdparm -d 0 /dev/hda This will turn off Direct Memory Access functionality for that device. I've looked at a lot of emails out on the web through a search through Google. Most of them crack me up. People have seen this problem (probably only once in a while) and then it doesn't happen for a while. That was my experience as well. Many of them claim this problem goes away automagically, as if Torvalds had prayed to some Norse god to look after Linux users. Maybe he did and left me off the list ;) Now a word to Red Hat. If you want to make things easy for your customers, put in some additional information in the error messages. The error above could easily have had "see man hdparm" for more information. A small simple change like this would prevent hours of user aggrevation over many other errors that show up on this forum and others. Of course something this simple would diminish the market for "Red Hat Training" and the market for Linux consultants. Perhaps, that's why you don't do it. However, it's possible that simple changes like this could expand the market for Red Hat and yield far bigger rewards. I don't have a financial answer for this question because I don't know enough about the training and consultancy markets and their respective sizes. However, I do know that the desktop market is huge. If you want to know where to start, try categorizing the problems that show up on this forum. Many of them repeat. See what error messages raise questions and see if you can incoporate pointers to help for those errors. You could even point to this forum for the really esoteric problem. Your up2date service is a marvelous way to keep everything functioning properly and to remove bugs automatically but things are still to cryptic even for computer literates and much of the digerati. I have the sense that Red Hat believes most users are changing their systems from Windows or adding Linux to an already functioning windows system. This allows for some cheating on the install, because M$ has already determined the proper configuration for the system. I find a great deal of irony in this. "Hey you, change to Red Hat Linux and get a better operating system. But first install windows before YOU attempt to install Linux." A crazy marketing plan at best. I can see M$ licking its chops. Why fight Linux, lets embrace it. We can sell a lot of our products to Linux users, because we can tell the user "Linux will do fine, even great, perhaps even better than our product, for this task. But if you want to have an easy time with Linux, put our system on first." And they have a lot of evidence to back up this point of view. Ernie -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
