On September 17, 2004 7:26 pm, James Wilkinson wrote: > I've read this whole thread, but I haven't seen you confirm that you've > got DMA turned on with this drive. Often speeds like that mean DMA is > off. > > Can you post the results of hdparm -v /dev/hda just so we can see what > you settings really are? Sorry. Yes, it appears I do. [root@localhost trevor]# /sbin/hdparm -v /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 16383/255/63, sectors = 78140160, start = 0 -- Trevor Smith // trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
