From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Ben Court <ben.r.court@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Slow hard drives
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:38:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071031103843.3a3dd374@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1193784294.5955.2.camel@jimin-desktop>
> The same comes up for hdb (i have two hard drives installed) and those 3
> messages repeat for a while and then this comes up
>
> Oct 30 20:45:41 jimin-desktop kernel: [ 69.256000] hda: DMA disabled
>
> Oct 30 20:45:41 jimin-desktop kernel: [ 69.592000] ide0: reset: success
The kernel switches from DMA to PIO (slow) when it finds that the DMA
isn't working properly - its attempting to keep the box running rather
than just dying
What controller ?
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2007-10-30 22:44 Slow hard drives Ben Court
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