Re: slow hard disk

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Has it been like this since the first time you booted fedora?

I improperly powered off a couple days ago and when I rebooted in fedora, everything was extremely slow and it was apparent the hardrive was the bottleneck (Opening mozilla made the HD churn for around 1 minute on a dual MP 1800 with 1 gig of ram). I tried a bunch of things to solve it and gave up. I was so frustrated with the time it took to boot I just powered off during boot. When I powered back on, everything magically came back to normal.

Btw, I'm not necessarily suggesting you do this, I'm just stating that I too observed odd behavior relating to HD performance. Just for the record, I have 1 Western Digital (120 Gig) drive and 1 IBM Deskstar (80 Gig) drive. Also, I had odd performance problems with the Western Digital in anything other than cable select. Maybe you could try to put your drive in cable select?

Good luck and sorry I can't be of more help.

ben

Christophe Le Guern wrote:

hi all,

I have a fresh install of fedora cora 1.
Unfortunally, the system is very slow.
I have play with hdparm options ( google search for my HD) without success

if someone have the solution, I'm very interested.

christophe

# /sbin/hdparm -i /dev/hdb

/dev/hdb:

Model=Maxtor 54098U8, FwRev=DA6207V0, SerialNo=K80CP4FC
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=4047/16/255, CurSects=16511760, LBA=yes, LBAsects=80041248
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4
AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-4 T13 1153D revision 17:

# /sbin/hdparm /dev/hdb

/dev/hdb:
multcount    = 16 (on)
IO_support   =  3 (32-bit w/sync)
unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
using_dma    =  1 (on)
keepsettings =  0 (off)
readonly     =  0 (off)
readahead    =  8 (on)
geometry     = 4982/255/63, sectors = 80041248, start = 0


# /sbin/hdparm -tT /dev/hdb

/dev/hdb:
Timing buffer-cache reads:   576 MB in  2.00 seconds = 288.00 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads:    2 MB in 14.46 seconds = 141.63 kB/sec



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