Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:48:37 +0000 | From | Tony Hoyle <> | Subject | Re: Dog slow IDE |
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Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > Hi! > > What does haparm /dev/hda (without the -i) say? Is it using DMA at all? > It may be set up for UDMA4 or UDMA5 but still run PIO only ... btw what > chipset is this? > Judging by the pci ids database it's either an AMD Unknown or AMD Opus chipset.
hdparm says DMA is enabled (it's enabled by a script a bootup AFAIK).
Installing smartd seems to have helped a lot - it's jumped to 28MB/32MB which is a hell of a lot closer to what I was expecting (not sure if ATA133 should give 133MB a second or whether that's just a theoretical limit).
Not sure why enabling smart would help that much (I'm still working my way around the BIOS settings and the way to enable it was far from obvious - you have to do a manual config of the hard drive first).
Tony
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