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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/hdb performance really sucks ...
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:34:15
Message-Id: 42E52F74.6050307@asmallpond.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] /dev/hdb performance really sucks ... by Richard Watson
1 Richard Watson wrote:
2
3 >Hi - I'm getting vastly different performance results on hda (master) as
4 >opposed to hdb (slave). Basically when my root partition mounts (/dev/hdb)
5 >I'm warned that DMA is off, yet hdparm -i shows udma as active. Basically
6 >/dev/hdb performance sucks ... I've bought both drives in the last few
7 >months. The motherboard is quite old (3 years .. I think).
8 >
9 >Any suggestions would be appreciated.
10 >
11 >
12
13 Maybe double check the jumpers on both drives... the first one should be
14 "master w/slave" if that option is available.
15
16 -Richard (um, Fish that is)
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