From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010802 Description of problem: A system containing the CS5530 chipset experiences IDE-related problems (anaconda unable to start from CD, DMA timeouts on heavy HD activity) when DMA is enabled. With DMA disabled (with either "ide=nodma" or via hdparm -d 0), the problems disappear. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Attempt to boot from the 7.1 CD Actual Results: Anaconda under X would never start. Complained about corrupt shared libraries. Expected Results: Anaconda should have started under X. Booting with ide=nodma allows this to happen. Additional info: This was with the updated 7.1 kernel (2.4.3-12) I'll attach a file containing dmesg output and select entries from /proc/ide...
Created attachment 28754 [details] dmesg output and /proc/ide information