On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 04:33:26PM +0300, Nikita Danilov wrote: > [Ed Boraas CC-ed, probably this is of interest for Debian people.] > > Corey G. writes: > > These settins were NOT on by default with Debian. The most important > > (I know this from testing) is "using_dma". After turning this on, things > > really start to move.
Having worked quite a bit with Debian on decently sized IDE machines, I can't say I've ever heard of Debian doing anything with hdparm in the init scripts. 'grep hdparm /etc/init.d/*' returns nothing. In addition the Debian woody system I had running DMA100 with 7200rpm drives with Reiserfs burnt from day one (well, there was a cap because of the pretty ancient other hardware, but it was old enough hardware I was testing that it made sense that there'd be a hit on disk performance) Ed - are you sure the kernel hasn't detected a bad drive/controller combination and has *intentionally* disable UDMA to prevent data corruption? Are you using the Good/Bad Drive Firmware protection? Something seems odd to me... -- Ross Vandegrift [EMAIL PROTECTED] A Pope has a Water Cannon. It is a Water Cannon. He fires Holy-Water from it. It is a Holy-Water Cannon. He Blesses it. It is a Holy Holy-Water Cannon. He Blesses the Hell out of it. It is a Wholly Holy Holy-Water Cannon. He has it pierced. It is a Holey Wholly Holy Holy-Water Cannon. Batman and Robin arrive. He shoots them.
