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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Nikolay N. Ivanov" <nn@nndl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.15.x - very slow disk-writing
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:54:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060214205458.10328f36.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43F2D3A3.9030707@nndl.org>

"Nikolay N. Ivanov" <nn@nndl.org> wrote:
>
> /dev/hda:
>    multcount    = 16 (on)
>    IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
>    unmaskirq    =  0 (off)
>    using_dma    =  0 (off)
>    keepsettings =  0 (off)
>    readonly     =  0 (off)
>    readahead    = 256 (on)
>    geometry     = 16383/255/63, sectors = 40060403712, start = 0

The disk isn't using DMA.

Check your IDE config settings, make sure that the right chipset support is
turned on, that "Generic PCI bus-master DMA support" is enabled, check
"Force enable legacy 2.0.X HOSTS to use DMA", "Use PCI DMA by default when
available", "Enable DMA only for disks", etc.

If none of that gets it into DMA mode then we might have broken the IDE
driver.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-15  4:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-13 21:13 2.6.15.x - very slow disk-writing Nikolay N. Ivanov
2006-02-14  4:05 ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]   ` <43F2BEE5.5060002@nndl.org>
     [not found]     ` <20060214193121.752767ee.akpm@osdl.org>
2006-02-15  7:09       ` Nikolay N. Ivanov
2006-02-15  4:52         ` Lee Revell
2006-02-15  4:54         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-02-15  9:14           ` Nikolay N. Ivanov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-15  5:44 Nikolay N. Ivanov

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