Re: Dog slow IDE

[Tony Hoyle]

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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