> In the beginning of July I reinstall my Debian system (lenny). At once I > discover that loading cache in Aptitude (ncurses-UI mode) is very slow > and in general my system is very slow. > > In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD (fsck > sayed it while Debian booting). Please, help me turn on DMA mode. > > [snip] > I had scanned my hdd with native WD scanner and hadn't detected any > error. Memory scan (memtest86+) also hadn't detected any error. > Moreover, Windows XP on another partition of this hdd working normally > and HDD Health program on it (for S.M.A.R.T viewing) don't predict > T.E.C. in the near future. Also after previous installation of Debian > lenny my hdd was working fast.
Use hdparm command to see if the DMS is enabled, if not enable it with the -d flag. If that action makes your system "faster" configure /etc/hdparm.conf to enable the DMA on boot. Hope it helps, Pavlos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
