From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: The default install of RH7.2 on a Compaq Armada E500 notebook (model number AE5 P3900T4X20DC12N2T) does not work with the machine's IDE disk controller. This results in file system corruption and data loss. This issue can be fixed by passing the ide=nodma option to the kernel at boot time. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Nothing special, beyond installation. Actual Results: After a while programs start to crash when launched or paging to/from disk. Changes to the file system will disappear. The ext3 filesystem will be corrupt when the system restarts. Invalid files will be appear in the filesystem that cannot be rm'd by root. Disk errors are logged to /var/log/messages, but not reliably because the filesystem is failing. Expected Results: None of the above. The installer should detect the IDE controller and configure the boot loader to pass the ide=nodma option to the kernel. Additional info: Passing ide=nodma to the kernel at boot time fixes the problem.
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