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 > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] 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? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] 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" > > > > > > > > --- Mark <msalists@xxxxxxx> 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Yahoo! Messenger > > Show us what our next emoticon should look like. Join the fun. > > http://www.advision.webevents.yahoo.com/emoticontest > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
