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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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William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> |
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Home in Perth! |
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