From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andre Duffeck Subject: Poor hd-performance (ALI M15x3-Chipset) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 18:02:11 +0100 Message-ID: <1101488531.5324.14.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:28865 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262237AbUKZTQT convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:16:19 -0500 Received: from vs169150.vserver.de (Debian-exim@vs169150.vserver.de [62.75.169.150]) by zeus.kernel.org (8.12.11/8.11.6) with ESMTP id iAQHtqDA011100 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 09:55:59 -0800 Received: from [213.23.32.19] (helo=localhost) by vs169150.vserver.de with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CXjUU-0007UX-PN for linux-ide@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 18:02:39 +0100 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org hello, i'm experiencing extremely poor performance of my harddisk. it is a laptop-disk, but it should be faster, i think. laptop:/usr/src/linux/linux-2.6.9# hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 1248 MB in 2.00 seconds =3D 623.16 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 14 MB in 10.85 seconds =3D 1.29 MB/sec laptop:/home/andre# hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount =3D 0 (off) IO_support =3D 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq =3D 0 (off) using_dma =3D 1 (on) keepsettings =3D 0 (off) readonly =3D 0 (off) readahead =3D 256 (on) geometry =3D 16383/255/63, sectors =3D 30005821440, start =3D 0 playing with the settings did not help. laptop:/usr/src/linux/linux-2.6.9# hdparm -X66 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting xfermode to 66 (UltraDMA mode2) laptop:/home/andre# hdparm -c1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 1 IO_support =3D 1 (32-bit) laptop:/home/andre# hdparm -t /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 14 MB in 10.75 seconds =3D 1.30 MB/s= ec here some more information: dmesg: ALI15X3: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:10.0 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A]: no GSI ALI15X3: chipset revision 196 ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x2480-0x2487, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x2488-0x248f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: FUJITSU MHR2030AT, ATA DISK drive lspci: 0000:00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4) Can anybody guess what's wrong here? thank you, Andr=E9