On Thu Apr 15, 2004 at 11:43:34 +1000, Lyle Chapman wrote: >Can anyone help, > >I have done a few searches and cannot find a solution, My problem is >when I copy something from one hard drive to another or across the same >drive my mouse pauses (when the drive is writing the information I >suspect). THis only happens on rather large files or lots of files in >the one copy session. > >I am running RH9, gnome etc. The drives are 2x80gb seagate with 8mb >cache and a 40gb Seagate 2mb cache. The 40gb is connected to channel 1 >with my cdburner and the 2 80gb are connected via channel 2. > >I have tried several hdparm settings. Am I missing somehting.
Is DMA turned on? Which mode is it in? hdparm -i <drive> and check which mode is set, eg: PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 I have udma5 enabled. Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
