Check the options for your chipset in the kernel - look at device drivers and ata/... devices. Looks like its just defaulted to the minimum as it hasnt seen what chipset you are using.
Also consider moving to libata - seems better where I have tried it. BillK On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 02:26 +0200, Wayn0 wrote: > Hi All, > > I have installed gentoo on my laptop recently and I am having a huge > problem with speed. > > The problem is the insanely slow disk access that I am getting. > > here is some output: > > manticore ~ # hdparm -tT /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > Timing cached reads: 5702 MB in 2.00 seconds = 2857.11 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 6 MB in 3.37 seconds = 1.78 MB/sec > > manticore ~ # /etc/init.d/hdparm start > * Running hdparm on /dev/hda ... > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > [ ok ] > * Running hdparm on /dev/hdd ... > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > [ ok ] > > > I read on a forum somewhere that this could be caused by the HAL daemon > so I shut that down and no luck :-( > > Any ideas? > > Thanks > Wayn0 -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home in Perth! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
