Ide=nodma is "loosing too many ticks"

[Mark]

Is there no easier solution that this?

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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at 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 at 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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