Am Di, den 24.02.2004 schrieb Don Levey um 02:30: > On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 05:15, Dean Mumby wrote: > > I have a intel d865perl mb with hyperthreading , sata , and all the same > features , i installed fedora , redhat 9, etc with legacy mode and then > simply switched to enhanced mode and i am running fine. did you check > wether your system had enabled dma > > hdparm -tT /dev/sda > > /dev/sda: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 3568 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1784.00 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 166 MB in 3.00 seconds = 55.33 MB/sec > > not slow at all > ---------------- > > So... I've got DMA enabled, Multiple I/O, EIDE 32-bit and lookahead > enabled in my /etc/sysconfig/harddisks file. Running that hdparm line > gives me: > > /dev/hdb: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 1204 MB in 2.00 seconds = 601.49 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 96 MB in 3.00 seconds = 31.97 MB/sec > > ...clearly *not* fast. This is a Maxtor Diamond ATA 120Gb drive, > 7200rpm, on an ASUS A7V8X-X mb. I'm running FC1 with a 2.6.3 kernel > from kernel.org. Any suggestions for speeding up my I/O (or more info > to provide)? > > TIA, -Don Just let hands off /etc/sysconfig/harddisks. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl Sirendipity 02:51:36 up 4 days, 4:25, load average: 0.18, 0.16, 0.17 [ ÎÎÏÎÎ Ï'ÎÏÏÎÎ - gnothi seauton ]