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From: Wayn0 <wayn0.ml@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:48:21
Message-Id: 47832AAB.6070903@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access by Renat Golubchyk
1 Renat Golubchyk wrote:
2 > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:51:02 -0500 "Mark Shields" <laebshade@×××××.com>
3 > wrote:
4 >> I'd also recommending after checking for the above, also check what
5 >> level of UDMA is set. Try this: hdparm -I /dev/hda | grep -i dma
6 >>
7 >> Yours should say probably either udma3 or udma4.
8 >
9 > Why not udma5 ? All my PATA drives (desktop and notebook) run at udma5
10 > for some years now without any problems.
11
12 Thanks to everybody that's replied so far.
13
14 I may have missed something kernel wise but my sata drives are
15 registering as hd* and it refuses to switch on dma.
16
17 I have no doubt this is a kernel config, just not sure where to look.
18 I don't have the laptop with me at the moment so I will post the kernel
19 config this evening.
20
21 or perhaps somebody knows right off the bat what the problem is and what
22 I need to enable and disable.
23
24 I am using the latest gentoo-sources 2.6.23-r8 if memory serves.
25
26
27 Thanks again
28
29 Wayn0
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Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>