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BULLETIN NUMBER: SWB-031

DATE ISSUED: June 25, 2003

DATE CLOSED: September 15, 2003

AFFECTED SYSTEMS: iHawk 861G

RELEASE LEVEL: RedHawk 1.2 and RedHawk 1.3

EXPLANATION: The iHawk 861G system ,which is a Dell 450, has an IDE based

disk system. The installation procedure in the RedHawk Release notes direct the inclusion

of the "ide=nodma" in the Boot Loader Configuration menu when installing Red Hat Linux.

Inclusion of the parameter "ide=nodma" on an iHawk 861G system results in less than

optimum performance, because the disk will not use DMA transfers. The Hawker Acceptance

Test Facility will incur excessive FBS overruns.

RESOLUTION: After completing installation:

1. Login as root.

2. #vi /boot/grub/grub.conf

3. Remove the "ide=nodma" parameter from all kernel commands in the file.

4. Save the file.

5. #reboot

This issue will be resolved with the next release of RedHawk.

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