Tim,

   Looks like you've now become the resident expert on i845 chipset
*grin*...congrats on the win!.... 

James

On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 17:52, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
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> Well, I found a 2.4.20 rpm for cooker, installed it on my system, and GUESS 
> WHAT??? Yup, that's right, DMA came on line.
> 
> Here again where my dismal speeds I was getting:
> 
> [root@sneakers tbutler]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda
> 
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.50 seconds =256.00 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in 22.07 seconds =  2.90 MB/sec
> 
> Now here is what I am getting:
> 
> [root@sneakers init.d]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda
> 
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.31 seconds =412.90 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.43 seconds = 44.76 MB/sec
> [root@sneakers init.d]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda
> 
>   Also, top now seems to report less than a 10% cpu time usage hit during my 
> 97 meg file copy test. :-) :-) :-)
> 
>   Thanks to everyone who gave suggestions, without them I would still be 
> scratching my head... probably moving partitions around. WOOHOO!!!!!
> 
>   -Tim
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