Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-08 Thread William Kenworthy
If you have sata drives, and they are showing up as hdx, you have something seriously misconfigured. They should be showing as sdx. Deselect everything in ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL and select the relevant boxes in serial ATA. Dont forget fstab will need redoing to match. I always thought that if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-08 Thread Wayn0
William Kenworthy wrote: If you have sata drives, and they are showing up as hdx, you have something seriously misconfigured. They should be showing as sdx. Deselect everything in ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL and select the relevant boxes in serial ATA. Dont forget fstab will need redoing to match. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-08 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Wayn0 wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: If you have sata drives, and they are showing up as hdx, you have something seriously misconfigured. They should be showing as sdx. Deselect everything in ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL and select the relevant boxes in serial ATA.

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-08 Thread Wayn0
William Kenworthy wrote: If you have sata drives, and they are showing up as hdx, you have something seriously misconfigured. They should be showing as sdx. Deselect everything in ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL and select the relevant boxes in serial ATA. Dont forget fstab will need redoing to match. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-08 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
BTW, which speed can be treated as not slow? hdparm for my SATA SAMSUNG HD401LJ shows ~60MB/Sec. Is it normal? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-08 Thread Dale
Wayn0 wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: If you have sata drives, and they are showing up as hdx, you have something seriously misconfigured. They should be showing as sdx. Deselect everything in ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL and select the relevant boxes in serial ATA. Dont forget fstab will need

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-08 Thread Hal Martin
I have a Western Digital 250GB SATA-II drive on an NForce4 integrated SATA-II controller, here are my readings... hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep -i dma DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 1646 MB in 2.00 seconds = 823.19 MB/sec

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-08 Thread Mark Shields
On Jan 8, 2008 12:53 AM, Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:51:02 -0500 Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd also recommending after checking for the above, also check what level of UDMA is set. Try this: hdparm -I /dev/hda | grep -i dma Yours should

[gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-07 Thread Wayn0
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-07 Thread William Kenworthy
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-07 Thread Dale
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Shields
On Jan 7, 2008 8:37 PM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-07 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:51:02 -0500 Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd also recommending after checking for the above, also check what level of UDMA is set. Try this: hdparm -I /dev/hda | grep -i dma Yours should say probably either udma3 or udma4. Why not udma5 ? All my PATA drives

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-07 Thread Wayn0
Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:51:02 -0500 Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd also recommending after checking for the above, also check what level of UDMA is set. Try this: hdparm -I /dev/hda | grep -i dma Yours should say probably either udma3 or udma4. Why not udma5