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William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> Check the options for your chipset in the kernel - look at device |
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> drivers and ata/... devices. Looks like its just defaulted to the |
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> minimum as it hasnt seen what chipset you are using. |
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> Also consider moving to libata - seems better where I have tried it. |
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> BillK |
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> On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 02:26 +0200, Wayn0 wrote: |
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>> Hi All, |
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>> I have installed gentoo on my laptop recently and I am having a huge |
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>> problem with speed. |
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>> The problem is the insanely slow disk access that I am getting. |
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>> here is some output: |
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>> manticore ~ # hdparm -tT /dev/hda |
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>> /dev/hda: |
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>> Timing cached reads: 5702 MB in 2.00 seconds = 2857.11 MB/sec |
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>> Timing buffered disk reads: 6 MB in 3.37 seconds = 1.78 MB/sec |
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>> manticore ~ # /etc/init.d/hdparm start |
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>> * Running hdparm on /dev/hda ... |
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>> HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted |
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>> [ ok ] |
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>> * Running hdparm on /dev/hdd ... |
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>> HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted |
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>> [ ok ] |
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>> I read on a forum somewhere that this could be caused by the HAL daemon |
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>> so I shut that down and no luck :-( |
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>> Any ideas? |
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>> Thanks |
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>> Wayn0 |
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Also check that DMA is enabled. If you have the wrong or no chipset |
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selected in your kernel, it won't be there. lspci may be a good one to |
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check as well. |
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Dang, that is slow tho. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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