John Richard Moser wrote:
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A while back my distro moved to libata for sata_via. I was since
confused; my disk seemed a lot slower, and it looked like DMA was off.
I'm not sure how SATA works; is it even possible to enable/disable
32-bit IO and DMA? Or are those just on?
sata_via 11524 4
libata 112660 3 ata_generic,pata_via,sata_via
~$ sudo hdparm -d1 -c1 -u1 /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 1
HDIO_SET_32BIT failed: Invalid argument
setting unmaskirq to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_UNMASKINTR failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)
I no longer have two kernels to test through; I can't tell if the speed
is back or not. Nothing in dmesg tells me if SATA is using DMA or
32-bit IO support though, so I don't know... lack of knowledge over here
is killing me for troubleshooting this on my own.
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Hi John,
This happened to me with my ICH7 intel chipset which supports sata and ata - my drive was an ide and the performance was like 1.2mb/sec. Someone said boot with combined_mode=libata and it fixed the problem.
Now I get 44mb/sec.
HTH,
Steve
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