On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:32, Jeff wrote: > Moving my thread over to the proper list... first... > > Now then - thanks to everyone on the list for your help. I've had barely > any sleep lately, so I must apologize first, for putting the original > thread onto the security mailing list by mistake. > > For anyone who's wondering - I have an AMD64 box, with a new Gentoo > AMD64 install. The hard drive read times are obnoxiously slow - so, I'm > going to attribute this to the wrong driver being loaded for the > controller. > > See here: > > hdparm -tT /dev/hda
do a hdparm /dev/hda followed by hdparm -iI /dev/hda and check, if dma is turned on and if yes, which mode. Oh, and I hope you compiled the correct driver for your chipset into the kernel? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
