Re: slows to a crawl when hard drive is in use

2002-05-25 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>Don't touch the timings. ide-pmac will setup proper timings depending >on the drive and the controller revision. If you think someting is >wrong, then send me what dmesg says along with a tarball of your >/proc/device-tree > >On the other hand, it's perfectly safe (and recommended) to enable >unma

Re: slows to a crawl when hard drive is in use

2002-05-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>I've also been running my iBook with interrupts unmasked for many months >without problems. > >Is it possible to get UDMA66 working on the iBook? My version of the kernel >configures the drive for UDMA33. I did try forcing it to UDMA66 using hdparm, >and it utterly toasted the filesystem ;( I do

RE: slows to a crawl when hard drive is in use

2002-05-21 Thread Jeramy B. Smith
Alright, the unmaskirq thing made a world of difference here. Before when i would tar zxvf a large 50+ MB file, the system would become _extremely_ unresponsive. Now the machine doesn't hiccup. -jeramy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: slows to a crawl when hard drive is in use

2002-05-21 Thread William R Sowerbutts
I've also been running my iBook with interrupts unmasked for many months without problems. Is it possible to get UDMA66 working on the iBook? My version of the kernel configures the drive for UDMA33. I did try forcing it to UDMA66 using hdparm, and it utterly toasted the filesystem ;( I doubt it

Re: slows to a crawl when hard drive is in use

2002-05-21 Thread Will Aoki
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:15:40PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > Egidio Corsini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Have you tryed to tune some parameters with hdparm? > > Mine looks like that > > /dev/hda: > > multcount= 0 (off) > > I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) > > unmaskirq= 0

Re: slows to a crawl when hard drive is in use

2002-05-21 Thread David N. Welton
Egidio Corsini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you tryed to tune some parameters with hdparm? > Mine looks like that > /dev/hda: > multcount= 0 (off) > I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) > unmaskirq= 0 (off) > using_dma= 1 (on) > keepsettings = 0 (off) > nowerr = 0

Re: slows to a crawl when hard drive is in use

2002-05-21 Thread Egidio Corsini
Have you tryed to tune some parameters with hdparm? Mine looks like that /dev/hda: multcount= 0 (off) I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) nowerr = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 8 (on) geomet