Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

[Mick]

On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Wayn0 wrote:
> William Kenworthy wrote:
> > If you have sata drives, and they are showing up as hdx, you have
> > something seriously misconfigured.  They should be showing as sdx.
> >
> > Deselect everything in ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL and select the relevant boxes
> > in serial ATA.  Dont forget fstab will need redoing to match.
> >
> > I always thought that if you select both, serial ata should take
> > precedence, and in some cases you can access via both, but I have at
> > least one machine that will only work as sata with all the older ata
> > stuff deselected.
> >
> > BillK
>
> Cheers,
>
> This is why it's doing my head in. I have a desktop with both sata pata
> drives in with a very similar kernel config and it work as expected :-/
>
> I will try removing all the ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL stuff tonight, and report
> back later.

For sata drives use this, not hdparm:

# eix -l sdparm
* sys-apps/sdparm
     Available versions:  
                        0.97
                        0.98
                ~       0.99
                        1.00
                        1.01
                ~       1.02
     Homepage:            http://sg.torque.net/sg/sdparm.html
     Description:         Utility to output and modify parameters on a SCSI 
device, like hdparm

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Regards,
Mick