From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Disk going a lot slower now...
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 12:43:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7573e9640611261143k3c7eeb47s6f913762bc57c84d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4569A5ED.5000301@comcast.net>
On 11/26/06, Chris Walters <cjw2004d@comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.
DMA is always enabled for SATA drives. There is nothing special
needed to enable it, although you do need to make sure that you have
the right driver compiled in your kernel for the IO chipset. What
does "hdparm -t /dev/sda" report? If this seems low, post the outputs
of lspci and dmesg.
-Richard
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-26 14:34 [gentoo-user] Hard Disk going a lot slower now Chris Walters
2006-11-26 16:47 ` Aniruddha
2006-11-27 2:01 ` Chris Walters
2006-11-26 19:43 ` Richard Fish [this message]
2006-11-27 2:12 ` Chris Walters
2006-11-27 17:01 ` Richard Fish
2006-11-27 22:25 ` Chris Walters
2006-11-27 22:36 ` Ken Gypen
2006-11-27 22:51 ` Mark Kirkwood
2006-11-28 1:00 ` Richard Fish
2006-11-28 4:08 ` Chris Walters
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