put it into single user and use hdparm -tT /dev/hda to test your settings
when you find the fastest, Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, search for hdparm,
you'll need to tweak that line.
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Marco Fioretti wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I installed Mandrake 6.0 some weeks ago. Everything
> (excepted sound...) works fine, but yesterday I noticed that
> I am running with DMA disabled (dmesg excerpt reported below).
>
> I checked the BIOS setup, and it says something like
> "AUTO detection of HDD features enabled".
>
> The MB is a FIC with VIA chipset, unfortunately I forgot to write
> it down..
>
> Note: this machine has only MANDRAKE installed: WIN98 was
> installed by the vendor just to check that all HW was ok,
> but the whole HDD was reformatted during Mandrake installation.
>
> Any idea about why this is happening, and how to fix it?
> (different configurations, LILO parameters, etc...)
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Marco Fioretti
>
> Humour note: at power up, the on board antivirus tells me in
> great despair that there is some "unknown virus on MBR!!"
> Eventually, of course, LILO and LINUX takes over..
>
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> DMESG excerpt:
>
>
> Linux version 2.2.9-19mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> (gcc version pgcc-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release))
> #1 Wed May 19 19:53:00 GMT 1999
>
> Detected 350799006 Hz processor.
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> Calibrating delay loop... 699.60 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 127732k/131008k available (956k kernel code, 408k reserved,
> 1528k data, 48k init)
> VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
> CPU: AMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb4e0
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> PCI: 00:3b [1106/3040/000604] has unknown header type 00, ignoring.
> PCI: 00:38 [1106/0586]: Work around ISA DMA hangs (00)
> Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
>
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.19
> VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe400-0xe407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe408-0xe40f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
> hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CR8.4A, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:282, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CR8.4A, 8063MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63
> hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
> Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55
> scsi : 0 hosts.
> scsi : detected total.
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> (scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 8/0
>
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> change_root: old root has d_count=1
> Trying to unmount old root ... okay
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 48k freed
>
> hda: timeout waiting for DMA
> hda: irq timeout: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
> Error }
> hda: irq timeout: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> hda: DMA disabled
> ide0: reset: success
> Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
> nfsd_init: initialized fhcache, entries=256
>
