From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 Description of problem: I use my RedHat Linux system on an Asus A7A266 motherboard (with an Ali chipset with DDR ram, probably the cause of the problem). When I do some disk IO on my IDE drives, the system is becoming unusable from a user point of view. Under heavy IDE load, il was able to get this : rtc: lost some interrupts at 1024Hz Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: The hardest part will probably be to find similar hardware. A good way is to insert a CD in the CD-ROM drive with one big file. and copy it to the hard drive. Then just try to move the mouse and you'll notice the problem. Additional info: I have tried to put my hard disk in another system (Asus A7V266), pretty similar to mine (but different chipset) and the system runs just smoothly. I already tried a BIOS upgrade and a Kernel upgrade. I'm running RedHat's latest Kernel RPM 2.4.9-21.
Created attachment 46180 [details] dmesg, lspci, ...
can you see if dma is enabled for the ide devices ?