Re: HP Omnibook 6000 hard drive

2004-08-28 Thread Rob Bochan
On Saturday 28 August 2004 05:12 am, Nicolas MASSE wrote: > Try "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda" and then retry to check the speed of your HD. > This activate the dma mode for your hard disk. If it doesn't work, maybe > the module for your ide chipset is not loaded. Check that with "dmesg". > > Nicolas. You

Re: HP Omnibook 6000 hard drive

2004-08-28 Thread Rob Bochan
On Saturday 28 August 2004 05:12 am, Nicolas MASSE wrote: > Try "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda" and then retry to check the speed of your HD. > This activate the dma mode for your hard disk. If it doesn't work, maybe > the module for your ide chipset is not loaded. Check that with "dmesg". > > Nicolas. You

Re: HP Omnibook 6000 hard drive

2004-08-28 Thread Nicolas MASSE
Le vendredi 27 Août 2004 18:31, Rob Bochan a écrit : > 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.

Re: HP Omnibook 6000 hard drive

2004-08-28 Thread Nicolas MASSE
Le vendredi 27 Août 2004 18:31, Rob Bochan a écrit : > 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.

HP Omnibook 6000 hard drive

2004-08-27 Thread Rob Bochan
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 replaci

HP Omnibook 6000 hard drive

2004-08-27 Thread Rob Bochan
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 replaci