Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

[Dale <dalek1967@bellsouth.net>]

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
>
> Thanks Bill,
>
> removing all the ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL stuff sorted it out.
>
> :-)
>
>
> Wayn0

Would you mind posting what speeds you get now?  I'm curious myself.

Thanks

Dale

:-)  :-) 
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