From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422872AbWBOGmE (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2006 01:42:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422890AbWBOGmE (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2006 01:42:04 -0500 Received: from mail.majordomo.ru ([81.177.16.8]:47883 "EHLO mail.majordomo.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422872AbWBOGmA (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2006 01:42:00 -0500 Message-ID: <43F2F0E7.7080103@nndl.org> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:14:15 +0000 From: "Nikolay N. Ivanov" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050322 X-Accept-Language: en-us, ru, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton , Lee Revell CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.15.x - very slow disk-writing References: <43F0F67A.8080001@nndl.org> <20060213200517.20f7a291.akpm@osdl.org> <43F2BEE5.5060002@nndl.org> <20060214193121.752767ee.akpm@osdl.org> <43F2D3A3.9030707@nndl.org> <20060214205458.10328f36.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060214205458.10328f36.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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. I've forgotten to switch on my VIA-chipset support. The problem was about 20 inches in front of my monitor. Sorry to troubled you. Andrew, Lee, thanks a lot! -- Nikolay N. Ivanov mailto: nn@nndl.org