William Kenworthy wrote: > 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 >>
Also check that DMA is enabled. If you have the wrong or no chipset selected in your kernel, it won't be there. lspci may be a good one to check as well. Dang, that is slow tho. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
