Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

Check the options for your chipset in the kernel - look at device
drivers and ata/... devices.  Looks like its just defaulted to the
minimum as it hasnt seen what chipset you are using.

Also consider moving to libata - seems better where I have tried it.

BillK


On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 02:26 +0200, Wayn0 wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have installed gentoo on my laptop recently and I am having a huge 
> problem with speed.
> 
> The problem is the insanely slow disk access that I am getting.
> 
> here is some output:
> 
> manticore ~ # hdparm -tT /dev/hda
> 
> /dev/hda:
>   Timing cached reads:   5702 MB in  2.00 seconds = 2857.11 MB/sec
>   Timing buffered disk reads:    6 MB in  3.37 seconds =   1.78 MB/sec
> 
> manticore ~ # /etc/init.d/hdparm start
>   * Running hdparm on /dev/hda ...
>   HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted 
>     [ ok ]
>   * Running hdparm on /dev/hdd ...
>   HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted 
>     [ ok ]
> 
> 
> I read on a forum somewhere that this could be caused by the HAL daemon 
> so I shut that down and no luck :-(
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> Wayn0
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William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
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