sata, ata, flash mix - slows system down to a crawl when copying from flash

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 04:36:03PM -0400, David Williamson wrote:

> I suppose this is a DMA issue but I'm not hep enough to know how to fix
> it.

This is:

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1672

which affects systems where you install to a non-ATA disk, but which have
ATA disks as well.

What you need to do is to load the driver for your IDE device in
/etc/modules before ide-generic.

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 - mdz