From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Molina <tmolina@cablespeed.com>
Cc: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.0 performance problems
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 01:27:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031230012715.GA30369@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0312291913270.5835@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 07:17:23PM -0500, Thomas Molina wrote:
> > > UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4
> > > AdvancedPM=yes: mode=0x80 (128) WriteCache=enabled
> > > Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-5 T13 1321D revision 1:
> > Any reason it is currently set to udma2 where it support udma4 ?
>
> Not really. The question was what mode the disk was running in. This is
> what it defaults to. This is a laptop drive that only runs at 5400RPM.
> Would changing the mode to udma4 make a dramatic difference?
It's not uncommon for a laptop to have a hard disk which supports
higher DMA modes than what the IDE chipset supports.
My aging Intel 440BX based VAIO has a disk in the same configuration
as yours, supports udma4, but chipset only goes up to udma2.
Dave
--
Dave Jones http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-30 1:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-29 22:07 2.6.0 performance problems Thomas Molina
2003-12-29 22:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-29 22:58 ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-29 23:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-30 14:14 ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-30 14:39 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-30 21:14 ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-30 21:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-31 0:50 ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-31 1:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-31 1:34 ` Andrew Morton
2003-12-31 11:25 ` bert hubert
2003-12-30 21:35 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-30 23:46 ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-30 18:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-29 23:14 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-12-30 5:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-30 10:27 ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-29 23:25 ` David B. Stevens
2003-12-29 23:05 ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-29 23:43 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-12-30 0:17 ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-30 1:23 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-12-30 1:27 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2003-12-30 1:37 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-12-30 1:40 ` Dave Jones
2003-12-30 1:49 ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-30 2:03 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-03 19:37 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-12-30 1:25 ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-30 1:37 ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-30 19:21 ` Andy Isaacson
2003-12-30 19:40 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-30 22:24 ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-31 0:33 ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-31 10:17 ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-31 11:21 ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-31 21:03 ` Roger Luethi
2004-01-01 1:27 ` Thomas Molina
2004-01-01 10:23 ` Roger Luethi
2004-01-01 23:09 ` Roger Luethi
2004-01-02 10:11 ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-30 1:27 ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-30 2:53 ` Thomas Molina
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-30 11:41 Samium Gromoff
2004-01-03 19:54 ` Bill Davidsen
[not found] ` <200312300855.00741.edt@aei.ca>
2004-01-05 12:33 ` Samium Gromoff
2004-01-05 15:09 ` Ed Tomlinson
2004-01-06 2:23 ` David Lang
2004-01-06 14:44 ` Samium Gromoff
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