[CentOS] DMA mode

2008-06-02 Thread David Mackintosh
Hi folks, I have an HP Proliant 140DL G2 server with what appears to be an IDE drive in non-DMA mode. Performance on the server is extremely bad when large amounts of disk activity is taking place. I think the problem is that my drive is not in DMA mode: # hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount

Re: [CentOS] DMA mode

2008-06-02 Thread Linux
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 6:22 PM, David Mackintosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...which I think is because the IDE controller isn't really recognized, or is pretending to be a SATA controller: For my cruiosity, what is your current kernel version? ___

Re: [CentOS] DMA mode

2008-06-02 Thread David Mackintosh
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 06:27:55PM +0300, Linux wrote: For my cruiosity, what is your current kernel version? # uname -a Linux stargate3 2.6.9-67.0.15.EL #1 Thu May 8 10:39:19 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux yum check-update doesn't show any available kernels, so I presume I'm current. --