From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx7mJ-0001Xu-20 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:34:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6PIWLWb000415; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:32:21 GMT Received: from smtp109.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp109.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.7]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6PIQC0e020774 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:26:13 GMT Received: (qmail 87247 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2005 18:26:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.50.105?) (richard?j?fish@212.180.33.26 with plain) by smtp109.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Jul 2005 18:26:11 -0000 Message-ID: <42E52F74.6050307@asmallpond.org> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:29:08 +0200 From: Richard Fish User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050723) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/hdb performance really sucks ... References: <000001c590f2$b96fe290$0400a8c0@ECRM> In-Reply-To: <000001c590f2$b96fe290$0400a8c0@ECRM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1250; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1745b341-466e-40e8-b89e-c96603e60f2f X-Archives-Hash: d0865aaa4410d9bf1a96ee7037836ba4 Richard Watson wrote: >Hi - I'm getting vastly different performance results on hda (master) as >opposed to hdb (slave). Basically when my root partition mounts (/dev/hdb) >I'm warned that DMA is off, yet hdparm -i shows udma as active. Basically >/dev/hdb performance sucks ... I've bought both drives in the last few >months. The motherboard is quite old (3 years .. I think). > >Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > Maybe double check the jumpers on both drives... the first one should be "master w/slave" if that option is available. -Richard (um, Fish that is) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list