What is the output of: # hdparm -d /dev/hda
Please check here for more tips and info: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_hdparm_to_improve_IDE_device_performance grtz, Aniruddha On Sunday 26 November 2006 15:34, Chris Walters wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > My secondary computer recently got fried, so I had to either rebuild my > first computer from scratch (almost), or just buy an off the shelf > model. Since I've been ill lately, I decided on option #2. I bought a > Gateway system with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processor 4200+ (Dual Core), 2 > GB of RAM, an integrated nVidia GeForce 6100 video chipset, and a > Seagate 250 GB SATA II HDD. It has other features, but they are not > important, right now. Oh, and it came preloaded with Windows XP Media > Center Edition. > > What is important is that I used Arconis Disk Director Suite to resize > the massive Windows partition (there are actually two, I didn't resize > the "rescue" partition), and move them so I could have about 128 MB of > unallocated space right at the beginning of the drive, and a lot of > space at the end. > > The reason for this was to create a dual boot system with Windows and > Linux. For a little while, there was no slowdown - the drive was still > quite fast. Then I tried to use hdparm (a Linux tool for viewing and > setting drive parameters). I noticed that DMA was turned off in Linux, > so I tried to turn it on, and got an error. Since then, this drive has > been going very slow - much more slowly than my USB hard drives (and > they are limited to 480 MB / s). > > 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. > > Regards, > Chris > > PS: I thought I'd post this here because it involves both Gentoo and > Windows. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
