Why am I not able to activate DMA mode for my IDE HDD/CD on ICH7 chipset?

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Release found: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Resolution:

In a system with a ICH7 chipset and a IDE HDD and/or a CD/DVD attached to the system, very slow I/O performance may be observed under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The reason for the potential problem is that when two drivers share hardware, one loses DMA capability. If the hardware and BIOS per...

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