1 |
What is the output of: |
2 |
|
3 |
# hdparm -d /dev/hda |
4 |
|
5 |
Please check here for more tips and info: |
6 |
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_hdparm_to_improve_IDE_device_performance |
7 |
|
8 |
grtz, |
9 |
|
10 |
Aniruddha |
11 |
|
12 |
On Sunday 26 November 2006 15:34, Chris Walters wrote: |
13 |
> Hello Everyone, |
14 |
> |
15 |
> My secondary computer recently got fried, so I had to either rebuild my |
16 |
> first computer from scratch (almost), or just buy an off the shelf |
17 |
> model. Since I've been ill lately, I decided on option #2. I bought a |
18 |
> Gateway system with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processor 4200+ (Dual Core), 2 |
19 |
> GB of RAM, an integrated nVidia GeForce 6100 video chipset, and a |
20 |
> Seagate 250 GB SATA II HDD. It has other features, but they are not |
21 |
> important, right now. Oh, and it came preloaded with Windows XP Media |
22 |
> Center Edition. |
23 |
> |
24 |
> What is important is that I used Arconis Disk Director Suite to resize |
25 |
> the massive Windows partition (there are actually two, I didn't resize |
26 |
> the "rescue" partition), and move them so I could have about 128 MB of |
27 |
> unallocated space right at the beginning of the drive, and a lot of |
28 |
> space at the end. |
29 |
> |
30 |
> The reason for this was to create a dual boot system with Windows and |
31 |
> Linux. For a little while, there was no slowdown - the drive was still |
32 |
> quite fast. Then I tried to use hdparm (a Linux tool for viewing and |
33 |
> setting drive parameters). I noticed that DMA was turned off in Linux, |
34 |
> so I tried to turn it on, and got an error. Since then, this drive has |
35 |
> been going very slow - much more slowly than my USB hard drives (and |
36 |
> they are limited to 480 MB / s). |
37 |
> |
38 |
> I suspect that what I did in Linux turned off DMA for this drive, though |
39 |
> it could be something else. Any ideas or suggestions would be welcome. |
40 |
> |
41 |
> Regards, |
42 |
> Chris |
43 |
> |
44 |
> PS: I thought I'd post this here because it involves both Gentoo and |
45 |
> Windows. |
46 |
|
47 |
-- |
48 |
gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |