I tried this "ide=nodma ide0=dma" but it did not fix my original problem
either.
When it says "Falling back to a sane timesource now", what does it fall back
to?
Can't I tell it to only use that timesource in the first place?
Thanks,
MARK
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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 12:20 PM
To: 'For users of Fedora Core releases'
Subject: RE: Ide=nodma is "loosing too many ticks"
Is there no easier solution that this?
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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Richard Molen
> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:30 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Ide=nodma is "loosing too many ticks"
>
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> --- Mark <msalists(a)gmx.net> wrote:
> > I got the following problem after my FC3 install:
> >
> > Losing too many ticks!
> > TSC cannot be used as a timesource.
> > Possible reasons for this are:
> > You're running with Speedstep,
> > You don't have DMA enabled for your hard disk (see hdparm),
> > Incorrect TSC synchronization on an SMP system (see
> dmesg). Falling
> > back to a sane timesource now.
>
> Seems I had this problem when compiling a custom kernel for
> an a7n8x board recently. hdparm couldn't enable the dma
> either. It finally worked after adding the correct IDE
> driver (amd/nforce) for that mobo. Until I corrected the
> problem disk performance was quite poor.
>
> > I have ide=nodma in the boot parameters, since I was not able to
> > complete the install with that parameter. If I try to take this
> > parameter out of the grub.conf, I get the below and the
> machine does
> > not boot:
>
> You may need to compile a custom kernel with the correct
> driver for your motherboard. Or perhaps get try an updated kernel.
>
> --
> Richard Molen
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