This laptop is working well with Sid except for one, seemingly major, thing.
Whenever there is any heavy disk reading or writing, for example scp'ing a
decent sized file to or from another machine, it slows to a crawl.
As far as I know, it's the original drive for the machine. Aside from
replacing the drive, does anyone out there use this particular machine and/or
have any tips? I've installed hdparm but I'm not yet familiar enough with it
to start tinkering for fear of damaging things. The drive info is as follows:
# hdparm -i /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Model=TOSHIBA MK1214GAP, FwRev=N0.11 A, SerialNo=80J63156T
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=46
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=17475/15/63, CurSects=16513875, LBA=yes, LBAsects=23579136
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4
AdvancedPM=yes: unknown setting WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: device does not report version: 1 2 3 4
The test shows this:
# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 500 MB in 2.01 seconds = 248.76 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 14 MB in 3.20 seconds = 4.38 MB/sec
I'd appreciate any advice, tips, etc.
...Rob
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