Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Disk going a lot slower now...

[Aniruddha <mailing_list@planet.nl>]

What is the output of:

# hdparm -d /dev/hda

Please check here for more tips and info:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_hdparm_to_improve_IDE_device_performance

grtz,

Aniruddha

On Sunday 26 November 2006 15:34, Chris Walters wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> My secondary computer recently got fried, so I had to either rebuild my
> first computer from scratch (almost), or just buy an off the shelf
> model.  Since I've been ill lately, I decided on option #2.  I bought a
> Gateway system with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processor 4200+ (Dual Core), 2
> GB of RAM, an integrated nVidia GeForce 6100 video chipset, and a
> Seagate 250 GB SATA II HDD.  It has other features, but they are not
> important, right now.  Oh, and it came preloaded with Windows XP Media
> Center Edition.
>
> What is important is that I used Arconis Disk Director Suite to resize
> the massive Windows partition (there are actually two, I didn't resize
> the "rescue" partition), and move them so I could have about 128 MB of
> unallocated space right at the beginning of the drive, and a lot of
> space at the end.
>
> The reason for this was to create a dual boot system with Windows and
> Linux.  For a little while, there was no slowdown - the drive was still
> quite fast.  Then I tried to use hdparm (a Linux tool for viewing and
> setting drive parameters).  I noticed that DMA was turned off in Linux,
> so I tried to turn it on, and got an error.  Since then, this drive has
> been going very slow - much more slowly than my USB hard drives (and
> they are limited to 480 MB / s).
>
> I suspect that what I did in Linux turned off DMA for this drive, though
> it could be something else.  Any ideas or suggestions would be welcome.
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
> PS: I thought I'd post this here because it involves both Gentoo and
> Windows.

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